Chén Wénzhòng 陳文中 was a Southern-Sòng paediatric physician active 1169–1184 (CBDB flourishing dates). He served as Héānláng pàn Tàiyījú jiān Hànlín liángyī 和安郎判太醫局兼翰林良醫 — Judge of the Imperial Medical Bureau and Liángyī (Excellent Physician) of the Hànlín Academy — combining administrative leadership of the central state medical bureau with paediatric clinical practice at the imperial court.
His paediatric œuvre, Xiǎo’ér dòuzhěn fānglùn 小兒痘疹方論 (KR3ej053, also transmitted under the Chénshì-prefixed title KR3ej056), is the canonical foundational text of the warm-supplementation (wēnbǔ 溫補) school of Chinese paediatric smallpox medicine. The work is paired in opposition to Qián Yǐ 錢乙’s earlier cooling-purging (qīngxiè 涼瀉) paediatric tradition (Xiǎo’ér yàozhèng zhíjué KR3ej020), and the Qián zhǔ liáng / Chén zhǔ wēn 錢主涼陳主溫 polarity structures the entire subsequent paediatric dòuzhěn discourse through to the late Qīng. Míng paediatricians from Xuē Jǐ 薛己 and Wàn Quán 萬全 onward explicitly position themselves as mediating between the two Sòng schools.
The CBDB lookup shows two homonymous Chén Wénzhòng entries; the paediatric physician is c_personid 98569. No precise birth/death years are recorded, only flourishing dates 1169–1184.