Wáng Kěntáng 王肯堂 (zì Yǔtài 宇泰, hào Niànxī jūshì 念西居士, 1549–1613, 明), late-Míng scholar-official-physician of Jīntán 金壇 (Jiāngsū). Jìnshì 1589, served as imperial-academy academician (Hànlín shūjíshì 翰林庶吉士) and later as imperial-secretary (官至福建布政司参政). His reputation rests primarily on his medical œuvre. Heir to the late-Míng Confucian-medical (rúyī) tradition. Author of the foundational Zhèngzhì zhǔnshéng 證治準繩 (KR3e0078, 120 juan) — the most comprehensive Míng-period clinical-medical encyclopedia after Zhū Sù’s Pǔjì fāng and Xuē Jǐ’s Yī àn corpus. The work was composed in stages: Zázhèng zhǔnshéng (Miscellaneous Diseases, 8 cè; in 13 categorical gates) and Lèifāng (Categorical Prescriptions, 8 cè) completed Wànlì dīngyǒu / wùxū (1597–1598); Shānghán zhǔnshéng (Cold-Damage, 8 cè) and Yángyī zhǔnshéng (Surgery, 6 cè) completed Wànlì jiǎchén (1604); Yòukē zhǔnshéng (Pediatrics, 9 cè) and Nǚkē zhǔnshéng (Women, 5 cè) completed Wànlì dīngwèi (1607). Total: 44 cè, divided into 120 juan in the SKQS recension. The corpus is balanced-comprehensive — neither over-cooling nor over-warming — and is praised by the SKQS editors as “the medical school’s standard reference” (醫家之圭臬). Also author of the Yùgāng zhāi bǐzhǔ 鬱岡齋筆麈 (a bǐjì miscellany).