Wāng Qǐshí 汪綺石 (late-Míng physician, fl. early-to-mid 17th c.). No CBDB record. The 1896 (Guāngxù bǐngshēn) postface by Chén Guāngsōng 陳光淞 to the Lǐxū yuánjiàn explicitly states that “the family-name and place of residence are difficult to investigate at short notice — perhaps a Míngmò loyalist remnant and a recluse-and-gentleman of the period of withdrawal” (姓氏里居，急切難考… 豈明末之遺老與避世之隱君子歟); the earliest dated witness for the work’s transmission is Kē Yǒutián 柯有田’s 1771 (Qiánlóng 36) jiābá 家跋.
His one preserved work is the Lǐxū yuánjiàn 理虛元鑑 (KR3eh042) — a foundational synthetic treatise on xūsǔn 虛損 (consumptive depletion), with the three-organ root doctrine (zhìfèi, zhìpí, zhìshèn — “treat the lung, treat the spleen, treat the kidney”) and the six etiologies of xūláo (jiǔsè 酒色, yōusī 憂思, ráoyán 饒言, fánláo 煩勞, jīngjiāng 精強, kèbīng 客病). Standardly paired with 葛乾孫 Gě Kějiǔ’s Shíyào shénshū as a canonical Qing-era pair on xūláo medicine.