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Yan Xin: publicly available information is limited, and all that is currently known is that three medical works appear under this name. These writings center on traditional Chinese medicine. The Lecture Essentials from the Tongji University Master of Chinese Medicine Inheritance Class is characterized by the organization of teaching and inheritance materials; Yan Dexin's Collected Experience in Drug Use focuses on a particular physician's approach to medication; and The Authentic Record of Menghe Medical School's Pattern-Treatment of Spleen and Stomach concerns the Menghe school's experience in treating spleen and stomach patterns. Judging by subject matter, Yan Xin's writing emphasizes the transmission of Chinese medical scholarship, clinical experience in drug use, and the organization of a medical school's pattern-treatment knowledge. The works are aimed at medical readers and stress the preservation of experience and documentary material. The available materials are insufficient to outline the author's life or identity, so only this limited introduction can be given, to be supplemented if reliable information later becomes available.