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World's
Earliest Book on Bubonic Plague Found
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????"Compilation
on the Plague", the first and most authoritative book worldwide
on this rat-transmitted disease, was accidentally recovered when
an old house was dismantled in Ningbo in east China's Zhejiang province.
????The book was written by a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
doctor called Luo Zhiyuan when he was trying to deal with a vicious
plague that swept over Guangdong province, in south China, in the
year 1890, and caught hundreds of thousands of people with the disease.
????The book, containing about 30,000 characters,
tells of exactly how to diagnose the disease, how to avoid and treat
the diseases.
????A great deal of China's advanced level in
plague treatment is attributed to this specialized book.
????Since the book went missing, academics have
only been able to follow traces and parts left in other books and
therefore failed to fully understand the plague as described in
the original book.
(Xinhua 11/07/2000)
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