Guo Yu 郭玉

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0106

Roles

• Official
• Physician
• Student

Career and standing

• Label: physician / 医
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0112, houhanshu:093:s0120
• Label: Assistant Director of the Imperial Physicians / 太医丞 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0112

Places and affiliations

• Place: Luo, Guanghan commandery / 广汉雒 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0106

Learning and skills

• Action: studied · Life Stage: youth · Teacher Person Id: Cheng Gao (程高) · Subjects: pulse diagnosis and the six subtleties / 方诊六微之技, the yin-yang arts of hidden signs / 阴阳隐侧之术
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0111

Works and attributed material

• Kind: discourse · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Status: quoted · Summary: the four difficulties of treating the noble: that the word for physician means mindfulness, that skill must follow the qi within a hair's breadth, and that fear of the exalted patient prevents the physician's intention from being fully realized · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0120, houhanshu:093:s0121, houhanshu:093:s0122, houhanshu:093:s0123, houhanshu:093:s0124, houhanshu:093:s0125, houhanshu:093:s0126, houhanshu:093:s0127, houhanshu:093:s0128, houhanshu:093:s0129, houhanshu:093:s0130
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Status: quoted · Summary: the left pulse was yang and the right yin, as though they belonged to different persons, and he suspected the reason · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0114, houhanshu:093:s0115

Events and relationships

• Kind: medical · Role: physician tested · Other Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Action: the emperor had a great lady dress in shabby clothes and change her station, and one needle cured her · Outcome: he was summoned and closely questioned about it · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0118, houhanshu:093:s0119
• Kind: medical · Role: physician tested · Other Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Action: the emperor hid a favourite with beautiful wrists among women behind a curtain and had him diagnose one hand each · Outcome: he reported that the left pulse was male and the right female and suspected a trick · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0113, houhanshu:093:s0114, houhanshu:093:s0115
• Relation: student-of · Person Id: Cheng Gao (程高) · Description: in his youth studied under Cheng Gao
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0111

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: his treatments produced effective results in many cases (多有效应) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0112
• Assessment: the emperor approved his reply · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0131
• Assessment: the emperor sighed and praised him as masterful · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0116
• Kind: character · Statement: humane and loving and never condescending: he exhausted mind and strength for the poor and lowly, yet sometimes failed to cure great men of rank · Source Text: 玉仁爱不矜，虽贫贱厮养，必尽其心力，而医疗贵人，时或不愈
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0117