Shǐ Kān 史堪, zì Zàizhī 載之 (fl. 哲宗–欽宗, c. 1086–1126), of Méizhōu 眉州 (then in Chéngdūfǔ 成都府, modern Sìchuān) — Northern-Sòng physician. Author of the Shǐ Zàizhī fāng 史載之方 (KR3ed010). His historical existence is attested by (i) the Sòng bài lèi chāo 宋稗類鈔 story of his curing Zhū Shīgǔ 朱師古 of Méizhōu of a “food-attachment” (shí guà 食掛) disease using a recipe derived from the Sùwèn; (ii) the Běichuāng zhìguǒ lù 北窗炙輠錄 story of his curing Chancellor Cài Jīng 蔡京 (1047–1126) of intestinal blockage with the single drug zǐwǎn 紫菀 (Aster tataricus) — the recipe verifiable in the surviving text (juǎn 1, Dàfǔmì 大府秘 section). His dates are inferable from these contacts: senior enough to treat Cài Jīng (in office as chancellor from 1102) yet active in the same generation; thus fl. roughly 1086–1126. The Sìkù tíyào (and earlier Ruǎn Yuán 阮元) erroneously took Zàizhī for the personal name; Wáng Zhènshēng 王振聲’s 1858 colophon to the BǎiSòngyīchàn copy of the work correctly identified the personal name as 堪. Not in CBDB. The Zhízhāi shūlù jiětí records a Zhǐnán fāng 指南方 in 2 juǎn by “Shǐ Zàizhī of Shǔ”; whether this is identical with the surviving Shǐ Zàizhī fāng is unresolved.