Líng Xiǎowǔ 凌曉五 (hào in his later years Zhégōng lǎorén 折肱老人, “the Old Man of the Broken Forearm” — alluding to the proverb that one becomes a physician through threefold-broken-forearm experience; fl. mid-to-late Qīng, ca. 1820s–1890s, died aged 72), late-Qīng Húzhōu 湖州 (Zhèjiāng) rúyī (Confucian-physician). His Húzhōu clinical practice was the highest-volume in the prefecture in his time, and he was known for his broad and unflagging jìpínbìng (relief of poor illness) work. His direct disciple 王香岩 (Wáng Xiāngyán) continued the practice in Hángzhōu, and Wáng’s student 沈仲圭 (Shěn Zhòngguī) organised Líng’s surviving clinical writings for publication in the early Republican period. The principal surviving work is the Líng Lín língfāng 凌臨靈方 (KR3ed143), published 1939 with a preface by Fèi Zéyáo. Sparse further biographical record.