Zhenben yishu jicheng 珍本醫書集成

Zhenben yishu jicheng 珍本醫書集成 is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) of medical books compiled by Qiu Qingyuan 裘慶元 (1873-1948), courtesy name Jisheng 吉生, from Shaoxing 紹興, Zhejiang. Qiu was deeply involved into the study of traditional Chinese medicine, and founded the Sansan Yiyuan Hospital 三三醫院 with the intention to defend TCM against Western-style medicine. He wrote several basic books on medicine like Xueyi fangzhen 學醫方針, Yaowuxue biandu 藥物學便讀, Zhenduanxue 診斷學 or Zhiliaoxue 治療學 and edited the periodical Sansan yibao 三三醫報. He also compiled the series Yiyao congshu 醫藥叢書, Guoyi baijia 國醫百家, and Sansan yishu 三三醫書.

The Zhenben yishu jicheng includes 90 texts presented as facsimiles of precious and excellent prints or manuscripts. The texts are arranged according to medical disciplines in 12 sections, namely medical classis, materia medica, methods and treatments, diagnosis, febrile diseases, and 傷寒類, "warm diseases" (wenbing), as well as the clinical fields of so-called inner (neike 內科) and outer medicine (waike 外科), gynaecology, and pediatrics. The collections ends with the sections medical cases and miscellaneous books. Qiu thus presents a library covering all important fields of traditional Chinese medicine, even texts not found in authoritative editions like the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書 or the encyclopaedias Yongle dadian 永樂大典 and Gujin tushu jicheng 古今圖書集成. Far the largest part of the collections consists of books compiled during the Qing period 清 (1644-1911), some of them commentaries on older texts.

The series was published in 1936 by the Shijie Shuju 世界書局.