吴瑭

Wu Tang was a Qing dynasty physician known for his work on warm diseases (wenbing). Public information about him is limited, and his exact birth and death years, native place, and detailed biography are difficult to verify. His treatise Wenbing Tiaobian (Systematic Differentiation of Warm Diseases), however, circulated widely and became an important classic in the field. The library holds three of his works, all related to this text, including the original and an edition in the collected clinical series, showing its enduring influence in practice and teaching. Wu Tang's writing is characterized by clear categorization and methodical differentiation, systematizing warm-disease theory for later students. His work belongs to medicine, is concise and practical, and holds a transitional place in the development of febrile disease diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine.