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"The Revised Print Of Traditional Chinese Medicine", a comprehensive Chinese medical book, had been compiled by Ma zhaosheng who is the last disciple of Miao Xiyung, in Ming dynasty.It has nine volumes and the main body, from volume I to volume IV,contains seventy-eight kinds of diseases, such as wind-stroke syndrome of Taiyang, common cold, heat stroke and so on. Every disease firstly lists medical classic viewpoint such as Neijing, then cites ancient medical experts’related discussion. This part clarifies the pathogenesis of each disease, and then sets out a variety of "treatment cases", along with the prescription drug. Volume V mentions about249commonly used drugs and repairing method. The last part, from Volume Ⅵ to VolumeⅨ,lists all the prescriptions of the "treatment cases". This book is self-contained, and convenient to clinical use. This book in the Department of internal medicine diagnosis and treatment of the disease are listed in repair, drug preparation and prescription is detailed, and Ma zhaosheng to teacher Miao Xiyong completely, to personal clinical experience, so it has high reference value to study medicine."The Revised Print of Traditional Chinese Medicine" in ancient times there are two versions. One is the Ming Wanli44years (1616) Bing Chen author edition, this preserves in The National Library. The other is the Qing Kangxi fifty-eight years (1719), Ma Longxiang, the great grandson Ma Zhaosheng,supplementary book, have not found in presently library. Today’s versions are the horizontal edition, which had printed by Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House in1987, and the one of "Encyclopedia of Chinese ancient existing copies" series of "The Revised Print Of Traditional Chinese Medicine ", a letter four, wire-bound. But the former is the mixture of the Ming Wanli version and Qing Kangxi version, their annotations collations are relatively simple; the latter only copy, no notes on collation. In short, this book is not widely circulated, study less, not to show its value.In the study, the master copy is the Ming Wanli45years (1616) Bing Chen author edition, which preserves in The National Library, and the proof copy is the horizontal edition, which had printed by Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House in1987. Detailed collation method is as follow:1.The version of Ming Wanli45years is the original edition, writing clear, content complete, so this study is basic on it, only a few words,which have gaps, supply by the version of Jiangsu, and proofreading; other different places record, but does not change the original.2. The original book has "volume ten", this study, according to the general style, puts "preface","legend","directory" in the first. Volume Ⅱ becomes the first volume of this new version, the rest by the order to advance, so as "nine volumes," and noted.3.There are serious wrong pages in the part of "phlegm disorder" and "cough" in volume Ⅶ and in the part of "headache" and "ear disease" in volume X.The study corrects them according to the directory, prescription, and noted.4. All the different places of the original book catalog symptom names, prescription names corrects by the text, and noted.5. All the different orders of the original book catalog prescription corrects by the text, and noted.6.The contents of "shoulder pain","arm pain", and "Mei heqi" are in Volume X. Now in the style of the book, put the symptom and treatment in VolumeIV,and put the prescription in VolumeⅨ.7. The original book for traditional vertical, re-entry now, instead of simplified characters side-by-side.8. The original book only pausing, this coupled with modern punctuation.9. The Original book characters, different writing characters and the ancient-modern characters change into standard simplified Chinese characters, not noted.10. All the interchangeable characters of the original book retain, and noted.11. All the obvious wrongly written or mispronounced characters correct, and noted.12. The different writing drug names of the original book, such as "Niu Bangzi" and "Bing Lang" change into the current prevailing wording "Niu Bangzi", and "Bing Lang", not noted.13.The different writing drug names of the original book, such as "Zhusha","Ziyuan","Huangqi","Kuolou","Shanzha", which still be used, have be reserved, not noted.14. All the lack of the original book have supplied according to documentations, and noted.The missing word replaces by the symbol of "?". The uncertain number of missing words replaces by the virtual symbol of "■".15. Unfamiliar word is phonetic and interpretable, and unfamiliar idioms are interpretable according to the "Dictionary","Chinese Dictionary","Chinese Medical Dictionary"(second edition) etc.16. The quotation in the original book, which is different form Chinese medicine classics in the general version at present, has changed, and noted.17. Detele the contents such as "Ma zhaosheng who’s the style name was ruibo edit","Zhang Yinglin who’s the style name was xuanqing proofreading" etc. in each volume.At the same time, this article also study on Ma Zhaosheng’s name and the style name, birth and death years, family relationships, medical writings, studying context, the main contents and characteristics etc. In conclusion, Ma Zhaosheng, whose style name was "ruibo" and whose pseudonym was "wujing" and "yudan Taoist", lived in Changshu of Jiangsu provine during the Ming dynasty. His birth and death years were roughly1570-1650years. Ma yuanjun was his father, brother Ma zhaozhen. Ma Zhaosheng had four sons:Ma Jue style name of "boxian", Ma Cha style name of "zhongzhao", Ma Menggui style name of "qiuqing" and Ma Tinggui style name of "dangu". The medicine works of Ma Zhaosheng, the last disciple of Miao Xiyong, were more than ten kinds, but most scattered, the only remaining were the book of "The Revised Print of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and the article of "The Foreword Of Opinions About Talking Medicine".