Wáng Shìxióng 王士雄, zì Mèngyīng 孟英 (universally known as Wáng Mèngyīng 王孟英), hào Suíxījū 隨息居 / Bànchī Shānrén 半癡山人 (1808–1868). The single most-cited late-Qīng physician and the principal late-Qīng Wēnbìng (warm-disease) school master.
Native of Hǎiníng 海寧 (Zhèjiāng), Wáng moved early to Hángzhōu and established his practice there. Across the mid-19th century — through the Tàipíng wars (1850–1864) and his subsequent exile in Shànghǎi — he produced an extraordinary body of clinical-doctrinal writing that systematised the Wēnbìng tradition founded by Yè Tiānshì (Yè Guì, 1666–1745, see KR3ed091 reference), Wú Jūtōng (Wú Táng, 1758–1836), and Xuē Shēngbái 薛生白 (1681–1770) into a coherent doctrinal-clinical synthesis. His principal works:
- Wēnrè jīngwěi 溫熱經緯 (1852) — the summa of Wēnbìng doctrine, synthesising YèWúXuē and the Nèijīng / Shānghán canonical texts.
- Suíxījū yīàn 隨息居醫案 — clinical case-records.
- Bǔzhèng tiáolùn 補正證調論.
- Jīmíng lù 雞鳴錄 (KR3ed124) — early-morning clinical compilation.
- Qiánzhāi jiǎnxiào fāng 潛齋簡效方 (KR3ed138) — Qiánzhāi simple-effective formulas (附醫話).
- Sìkē jiǎnxiào fāng 四科簡效方 (KR3ed139) — simple-effective formulas in the four branches.
- Jiàodìng Yuàntǐ yīhuà liángfāng 校訂願體醫話良方 (KR3ed140) — collated Yuàntǐ medical-talk and good-formulas.
- Suíxījū yǐnshí pǔ 隨息居飲食譜 — dietary therapy compendium.
Wáng’s methodological signature is rigorous xūshíhánrè (deficiency-excess-cold-heat) syndrome discrimination combined with precise Wēnbìng aetiological reasoning. He polemicised against contemporary tendencies toward unreflective warming-and-tonifying prescribing, and was especially severe on the routine prescription of ginseng. His clinical style decisively shaped the Mènghé and JiāngZhè late-Qīng schools and the modern Republican-era Wēnbìng practitioners.
Not in CBDB (which has limited late-Qīng coverage). Principal English-language source: Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China. Routledge, 2011.