| The author of The Medical Secrets of an Official is Wang Tao in Tang Dynasty. This book is deserved to be called the comprehensive summary of prescription books before the Tang Dynasty. Wang Tao made an important contribution to preserve ancient medical literature. The compiled work had been made for decade years and was completed in 752 AD. Directly or not more than one hundred books were adopted in The Medical Secrets of an Official, some of books still remains while others cannot be tracked down. Fortunately, we have The Medical Secrets of an Official and it can help us to correct, addendum and renew them to make readers clear about the literature of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Zhang Ji (Zhang Zhongjing) was an outstanding medical scholar in Eastern Han Dynasty. He was the most famous clinical physician at that time and he had made the greatest contribution to medicine in Han Dynasty. A Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Disease, the masterpiece of Zhang Zhongjing discussed about exogenous febrile andinternal injury diseases. This book was completed about 200-205 AD, however, in the frequent changing history a lot of them were missing. Later generations rearranged and divided this book into two books: The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. A lot of lists in The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber can be found in The Medical Secrets of an Official. Through systematically and completely coordinate the contents of A Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Disease before the Tang Dynasty, this article managed to present a further understanding of its ancient form and provide some valuable document for us as well.The ancient documents were cited by The Medical Secrets of an Official in different ways, for example, some of them were direct lists, some of them were indirect lists and so on. Therefore, Zhongjing's lists could be divided three parts.The first part's lists were direct quotations. There were altogether ninety-seven lists from the first volume to the eighteenth.The second part's lists were indirect quotations, which were categorized due to their sources. There were fifty-eight lists.The third part's lists were annotation in undersize words. There were sixty-seven lists.There are many important reasons for collecting andstuding the lists of Zhang Zhongjing in The Medical Secrets of an Official.Firstly, because the lists of Zhang Zhongjing in The Medical Secrets of an Official had not been divided by later generations so we can rely on these lists to learn about the original contents of A Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Disease before the Tang Dynasty. Compared with The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber today, there are much different not only in editions but also in words. Some lists in The Medical Secrets of an Official can not be found in The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, however we can find them in addendum, actually still some lists can not be seen in part, even in addendum. For many those reasons, authorities think these lists must be lost.Secondly, we can take the advantages of the lists of Zhang Zhongjing in The Medical Secrets of an Official to collect and prefect The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.Thirdly, there are about two hundred and twenty-two lists of Zhang Zhongjing in The Medical Secrets of an Official. Most of them can be found in today's The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. On the other hand there are a few of the lists can not be found in The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. So we can compensate these lists into itand make it more completely.Finally, the collection and study of the lists of Zhang Zhongjing in The Medical Secrets of an Official will help to learn about The Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber's, influence upon the Traditional Chinese Medicine during the Han and Tang Dynasty.
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