Wú Ruìfǔ 吳瑞甫 (1872–1952), original name Wú Xīhuáng 吳錫璜, zì Ruìfǔ 瑞甫, hào Fǔtáng 黼堂. Native of Tóngān 同安 county in Xiàmén 廈門 (Fújiàn). Major Republican-era physician and Sino-Western integrationist (zhōngxī huìtōng pài 中西匯通派) practitioner of southern Fújiàn and South-East Asia.
He came from a hereditary medical family — his grandfather Wú Huījí 吳撝吉 founded the family practice — and read the Chinese medical canon (from Língshū, Sùwèn down through Hàn, Jìn, Táng, Sòng, Yuán, Míng witnesses) systematically from his youth. By his own report he had annotated more than 1,000 juǎn of medical texts by the time he wrote the Zhōngxī wēnrè chuànjiě. Doctrinally he held 王士雄 Wáng Mèngyīng’s Wēnrè jīngwěi to be the supreme treatise on warm-disease, and Wèi Niàntíng 魏念庭, Yè Tiānshì, Xú Língtāi 徐靈胎, Kē Yùnbó 柯韻伯, and Chén Xiūyuán 陳修園 to be the most distinguished classical authorities.
His Sino-Western integrationism is distinctive in its breadth: over more than ten years he systematically acquired and studied Chinese translations of Western medical texts, the goal being a working clinical translation between the two systems — “applying Chinese methods where Chinese is appropriate, Western where Western is appropriate, as a mirror reflects whatever stands before it” (宜於中則中，宜於西則西，如鑑照物，隨物以應). His major works:
- Zhōngxī wēnrè chuànjiě 中西溫熱串解 (KR3eg021), Mínguó 9 (1920), composed at the Huíchūnlú yīyuàn 回春廬醫院, Xiàmén.
- Annotated edition of the Sānyīn fāng 三因方.
- Nǎosuǐ bìng lùn 腦髓病論 (Treatise on Brain-Marrow Diseases), 2 juǎn.
- Zhōngxī màixué 中西脈學 (Chinese-Western Pulse Diagnosis), 1 juǎn.
- Zhōngxī nèikēxué 中西內科學 (Chinese-Western Internal Medicine), 10 juǎn.
His clinical reputation extended throughout South-East Asia (the southern-Fújiàn diaspora communities). Source: book prefaces; modern reference works on Republican-period medicine.