Wāng Áng 汪昂 (1615–1694), zì Rènān 訒庵, was a Xiūníng 休寧 (Huīzhōu, Ānhuī) scholar-physician of the late Míng / early Qīng and the most influential medical popularizer of the Kāngxī era. A xiùcái who failed the jǔrén examination, he turned to medicine in middle age and devoted himself to producing accessible textbooks for the educated literate non-professional reader rather than to commercial practice. His four major works — Yī fāng jí jiě 醫方集解 (1682), Běn cǎo bèi yào 本草備要 (1683), Sùwèn Língshū lèi zuǎn yuē zhù (KR3ea039, 1689), and Tāngtóu gē jué 湯頭歌訣 (1694) — together define the late-Qīng “ru-yī literacy” curriculum and have remained the basic primers of Chinese-medical pedagogy down to the modern PRC TCM university system. He died in 1694 aged 79.