The Wucheng Han Slips unearthed in Huzhou(Zhejiang Province)are objects left from the Wucheng County Office during Western and Eastern Han Dynasties,of which there are three medical wooden slips.This article uses the"dual evidence method"to conduct textual research on the slips,and speculates that the"疾温"in Slip 270 may refer to infectious febrile disease.Slip 177 is a letter written by Lyu Guang to his family,and it tells that Lyu was a patrolling official or doctor and he may have experienced an epidemic in Yangzhou.Slip 269 is a medical prescription with as many as 26 Chinese medicines yet with no records of their indications.Judging from the prescribed medicines,combined with relevant records in Su Wen(《素问》Plain Questions)and Hou Han Shu(《后汉书》History of The Later Han Dynasty),the authors hold that it may be a medical prescription used during the pestilence in Kuaiji(of Zhejiang)in the lunar April on the sixth year of Yuanchu(119)in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Wucheng Han SlipsWooden Slips of Medical PrescriptionsEpidemic Diseases
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