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Publicly available information on He Ren is quite limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be confirmed. The library holds only one work by him, Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essentials of the Golden Cabinet). Judging from the title and its classification, the book belongs to the canon of traditional Chinese medicine. Jin Gui Yao Lue was originally the miscellaneous-diseases portion of Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases, and it is a key classic for clinical practice and formula science in Chinese medicine. He Ren's work is therefore likely connected with the study, collation, or interpretation of this classic, dealing with pattern differentiation of miscellaneous diseases, formula composition, and clinical treatment, in a rigorous and practical style centered on annotation and orderly exposition. Because biographical details and other writings are lacking, his scholarly development cannot be traced further; readers may regard the book as a companion for studying Jin Gui Yao Lue, of some value for learning the classics and for clinical reference.