Wáng Déxuān 王德宣 (zì Sōngrú 松如, late-life hào Tiándàn shānrén 恬憺山人, 民國), Republican-era physician of Xiāngxiāng 湘鄉 (Húnán). Active from the 1920s into the 1930s. Practiced briefly as military medic / quartermaster (少校軍需 兼軍醫) in 1926 under the Nationalist forces stationed at Níngxiāng 寧鄉, then established a private practice in Běijīng. He gained considerable reputation during the 1932 Běijīng lànhóu dānshā 爛喉丹痧 (scarlet fever) epidemic, in which conventional treatment was failing and he was able to save many; the case-records form a substantial part of his Wēnbìng zhèngzōng 溫病正宗 (KR3eg012).
In 1935 he was appointed professor of warm-disease at the Húnán State Medical College 湖南國醫專科學校 (Húnán Guóyī Zhuānkē Xuéxiào); the Wēnbìng zhèngzōng preface is dated and signed there. Self-styled doctrinally as a moderate critic of the Qīng wēnbìng synthesis — he praised Wáng Mèngyīng’s Wēnrè jīngwěi but was sharply critical of Wú Jūtōng’s Wēnbìng tiáobiàn, accusing Wú of “fabricating Guìzhī tāng citations to deceive the world”.
Source: Wēnbìng zhèngzōng preface; Zhōu xù 周序 to Wēnbìng zhèngzōng.