Wáng Yuǎn 王遠 (hào Zhègāo Yúshǐ 柘皋漁史, “Fisherman-Scribe of Zhègāo”, fl. 1700s, Kāngxī era), Qīng-period gentleman-amateur of medicine from Zhègāo 柘皋 (modern Cháohú 巢湖 area of Anhui). Author of the Qíjí fāng 奇疾方 (“Formulas for Extraordinary Diseases”) preface and compilation dated zhùyǒng yānmào qiěyuè jìwàng (= wùxū 戊戌 = year 1718, 6th lunar month, 16th day), preserved as the appendix to KR3ed104 Qífāng lèibiān of Wú Shìchāng. Wáng identifies himself in the preface as “not a physician, but one who loves to copy out formularies.” His compilation is drawn principally from formulas scattered through the Běncǎo gāngmù and from oral accounts of strange-symptom cases. Wáng’s preface preserves the memorable motivating anecdote of the woman at the Yìhé ferry-head whose eyeballs had emerged from their sockets — for whose condition the Běncǎo preserved a formula Wáng discovered only after the patient’s death.