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Gong Ting-xian was written in the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587) and has been published in many volumes. The earliest extant one is the Jinling Zhou family's reprint in the 30th year of Wanli's reign (1602), and the others include the Jinling Hall's reprint in the 43rd year of Wanli's reign (1615) and the Ming movable type printing. There are more than 30 kinds of engravings in Ye Longxi of Changmen Shulin, various engravings in the Kangxi, Daoguang and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty, modern reprints and Japanese Yuan and movable type editions. Ming Dynasty movable type edition new issue Wanbing Huichun , Daoguang 25th year (1845) Tongshi Shanfang engraving edition new issue supplement Wanbing Huichun , Ming Shancheng Tang?s original work New issue supplement Wanbing Huichun original , Lu Shen Tang?s original work Detailed proofreading Wanbing Huichun >, Jinzhang Shu and printed version are supplemented by Wanbing Huichun . In 1984, the People's Medical Publishing House took the lithographed edition of Jiangdong Bookstore in the Qing Dynasty as the base, and then revised and corrected it with reference to other editions before printing it.

The book has 8 volumes in total. The front line of Volume 1 is "The Unification of All Gold", which summarizes the world, earth and man, yin-yang five elements, zang-fu organ function, main abnormal pulse syndrome, etc. It contains medicinal property songs, main medicines for various diseases, zang-fu organ, meridian and other items. Volumes 2 to 8 respectively discuss 184 types of diseases and syndromes of internal and external women and children, five sense organs and other departments. Each disease explains the cause, pathogenesis, treatment, prescriptions and medicines, etc., with medical records attached. At the end of the volume is attached "Yunlin Xiabi", which contains "Ten Essentials for Medical Practitioners" and so on. Some editions also include "Gong Family Instructions" and other chapters.

Gong's syndrome differentiation is detailed, the prescription is precise, and the treatment is appropriate. The "Ten Essentials for Physicians" appended at the end of the book covers a wide range of issues in medical ethics and medical sociology and is of great reference value.