Wú Táng 吳塘 (also written 吳瑭, 1758–1836, CBDB 70543), zì Pèihéng 配珩, hào Jūtōng 鞠通 (universally cited as Wú Jūtōng 吳鞠通). Native of Héxià town in Shānyáng county of Huái’ān prefecture (modern Huái’ān 淮安, Jiāngsū). The major mid-Qīng wēnbìng theorist and one of the “Four Greats” of the Qīng warm-disease school (Yè Tiānshì, Xuē Shēngbái, Wú Jūtōng, Wáng Mèngyīng).
His father died of illness when Wú was nineteen, and Wú then turned from the jǔyè to medicine, studying the Shānghán and wēnbìng canons and especially the doctrinal legacy of Yè Tiānshì. In Qiánlóng 48 (1783) he was summoned to the capital to participate in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書 medical-text collation, an experience that gave him direct contact with the imperial medical archive. In Qiánlóng 58 (1793) a major epidemic struck Beijing; Wú worked through the outbreak treating patients and gained the reputation that would underwrite the Wēnbìng tiáobiàn.
Principal work: Wēnbìng tiáobiàn 溫病條辨 (KR3eg010), 6 juǎn, drafted ca. 1798, shown to friends in revised form 1804, and printed Jiāqìng 18 (1813). The work establishes the three-burner (sānjiāo 三焦) staging of warm-disease as a doctrinal parallel to Yè Tiānshì’s four-fen (wèiqìyíngxuè) staging — proceeding from upper to lower, from shallow to deep — and codifies the cool-releasing prescription apparatus of the southern wēnbìng school (Yínqiào sǎn 銀翹散, Sāngjú yǐn 桑菊飲, Huòxiāng zhèngqì sǎn 藿香正氣散 [under Wú’s reading], Qīngyíng tāng 清營湯, Qīnggōng tāng 清宮湯, Xījiǎo dìhuáng tāng 犀角地黃湯, Āngōng niúhuáng wán 安宮牛黃丸), prescriptions that remain the operational core of modern TCM warm-disease therapy.
Modern Chinese medicine counts the Wēnbìng tiáobiàn among the “Four Great Classics” of TCM alongside the Huángdì nèijīng, Shānghán lùn, and Jīnguì yàoluè.
CBDB entry 70543 records the name but is missing dates. Lifedates 1758–1836 are confirmed across modern reference works (Zhōng yī rén wù cí diǎn, Wikipedia (zh), baidu baike, A+醫學百科).