Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2002 Jul; 32(3): 173-8.

[Observation on and naming to plague in folk people and medical practitioners of modern China]

Li Y.

Research Center for Historical Geography, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433.

It is helpful to differentiate plague from other infectious diseases from the point of view of ordinary people and medical practitioners, by observing and studying how they observed the activities of rats, described symptoms of patients, and named plague. Although they had well known about such knowledge, they did not distinguish this disease from others and various names were existed.