Wén Qǐ 文起 (style Mèngbì 夢弼) was a mid-Qīng paediatric specialist of Héngshān 衡山 (modern Héngyáng prefecture, Húnán). He compiled the Dòukē jíyào 痘科輯要 (KR3ej060), published in 1801 (Jiāqìng 6) with a self-preface composed at the Zhúyán cǎoshè 築岩草舍 study, and re-issued in 1829 (Dàoguāng 9) at Chángshā by Máo Péng 毛鵬. The 1801 first edition was sponsored by Jīn Càizhōng 金菊圃 (“Jīn Júpǔ”), then serving as Educational Official at Héngshān.
Wén’s editorial doctrine — that Niè Jiǔwú 聶久吾’s late-Míng Huóyòu xīnfǎ 活幼心法 doctrine of mìngmén tāidú 命門胎毒 (the fetal poison resident in the mìngmén gate-of-life) is the soundest of paediatric smallpox theories, with Zhū Yùtáng 朱玉堂’s Dòuzhěn dìnglùn and Zhāngshì’s Zhǒngdòu xīnshū 種痘新書 as supplementary sources — defined a third-stream alternative to both Qián Yǐ’s cooling-purging tradition and Chén Wénzhòng’s warming-supplementation tradition. Wén’s preface to the 1801 edition is a notable instance of late-Qīng paediatric historiography that explicitly subordinates the SòngJīnYuán sìdàjiā masters to a Míng provincial physician (Niè Jiǔwú).
CBDB has no entry for Wén Qǐ; biographical detail is drawn from the 1801 self-preface and the 1829 reprint preface only.