Document Type
Article
Abstract
Early Chinese texts contain extensive disease descriptions, including various texts that contain descriptions of modernday conditions. During the Sui Dynasty, a leading scholar, Chao Yuanfang, may have authored a leading treatise 1400 years ago. Although these texts are the subject of ongoing research, evidence suggests that a clinical syndrome consistent with pertussis was observed in ancient China.
Disciplines
Asian History | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Recommended Citation
Yan Liang, Abdulbaset M. Salim, Wendy Wu, Paul E. Kilgore, Chao Yuanfang: Imperial Physician of the Sui Dynasty and an Early Pertussis Observer?, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2016, ofw017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw017
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Comments
© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw017