Hé Liánchén 何廉臣 (běn míng Bǐngyuán 炳元, zì Liánchén 廉臣, hào Yìnyán 印岩, 1861–1929), late-Qīng / Republican physician of Shàoxīng 紹興 (Zhèjiāng), one of the founders of the Yuèpài 越派 (Shàoxīng-school) medical synthesis and the most influential late-Qīng / early-Republican exponent of the Wēnbìng 溫病 tradition.
Studied medicine in the family tradition (grandfather Hé Xiùshān 何秀山 was a Shàoxīng physician); began practice in his twenties. Co-founded the Shàoxīng Medical Society 紹興醫學會 with 曹炳章 Cáo Bǐngzhāng in 1908 and was the principal editor of its journal Shàoxīng yī yào xué bào 紹興醫藥學報, the most important Chinese-medical periodical of the late-Qīng / early-Republican period.
Best known for his commentary on Wú Kūnān’s 吳坤安 Shānghán zhǐ zhǎng 傷寒指掌 — reissued as Gǎn zhèng bǎo fá 感症寶筏 — and for his comprehensive editions of late-Qīng Wēnbìng literature (the Chóng dìng Guǎng wēn rè lùn 重訂廣溫熱論, the Shī wēn xīn lùn 濕溫新論, etc.). A major participant in the early-Republican project of integrating Western anatomical-physiological vocabulary into the Chinese medical lexicon while preserving the Wēnbìng doctrinal frame.
No CBDB record. Sources: Zhōng yī rén wù cí diǎn 中醫人物詞典 (Shanghai: Shanghai cishu, 1988); Yuè zhōng yī jiā lì 越中醫家歷 (Hangzhou: Zhejiang renmin, 1991).