The Research On Epidemic Prevention Of Hunan In Ming Dynasty

Control of Epidemic diseases of the Ming Dynasty in Hunan province mainly related to the outbreak in Hunan province was based on facts,pestilence popular of the Ming Dynasty in Hunan province and its control to start, trying to search for regional social and cultural medical field in Hunan province to do some preliminary research.Firstly.through a series of development of disease characteristics, delimiting the paper is to explore the disease mainly refers to a strong contagious, can lead to high damage and high mortality of a class of infectious diseases; discussed pestilence can easily lead to social disease events hazards.After defining the definition and scope of the disease, the author had make out of "the Ming Dynasty in Hunan province epidemic famine table"by collecting the Ming Dynasty chronicles in Hunan region,the Ming history, memoir and other historical materials.Pursuant to the epidemic, epidemic, outbreaks and other specific data of the chronology and statistical,its analyses the Ming Dynasty in Hunan popular pestilence basic overview,the characteristics of the distribution and the causes of the disaster and epidemic outbreaks.Its found out the basic law of plague in Hunan Ming Dynasty,showing"epidemic of three films,the three major epidemic,the outbreaks in three years time";Pestilence peak of the outbreak is mainly concentrated in the summer and fall, the least incidence in winter, which is consistent with the high incidence of infectious diseases in summer and autumn Features.There is a less pestilence in pre-dynastic and frequent mid gradually, to the late arrival peak.Floods and droughts and famine in the Ming Dynasty in Hunan is the most major evoked factor.From the perspective of social medical history,a more detailed discussion of two levels of government and civil society in the Ming Dynasty in Hunan Province,how to deal with the epidemic disease and specific initiatives.On the whole,the official dealings with measure is timely and effective, can save a large number of patients with epidemic disease,help people rebuild their homes and actively;but there are some the phenomenon that officials ignore life and negligence.Especially in the late Ming Dynasty,with the development of commodity economy,non-governmental forces have become the main force for the treatment of epidemic disaster.Finally,summed up the general characteristics of the public officials in Hunan province and its prevention measure overall evaluation. Thus,epidemic disaster relief is a system which needs full cooperation and full participation. Whether it is guided by the government or fork spontaneous relief,such as charitable concept formation and development,disaster relief increasingly social.Notion relief increasingly social.National mobilization,build consensus,led by the government,mobilize social forces actively to disaster relief,which is general disaster relief rules in ancient and modern.this relief today we have a diversified system of some significance.