Disease And Two Song Dongnan Society

This article selects the south-east areas of two Song as a research region , emphatically explores the relations between the popularity of plague and the society, and the author obtains,this time the plague is popular in this area more than one hundred times through making a diagram,havingthe seasonal characteristic,the regional characterisic and so on. This is associated with the unique natural and social environment in south-east areas of two Song, especially it is closely related to the the natural disaster,the war and the famine. The author stasticses, the flood directly causes the populariy of plague to have totally seven times, accorting for 7% of plague explosion total amount, the drought totally five times, accorting for 5%, the war totally eight times,accorting for 8%, the famine totally sixteen times, accorting for 15%.The popularity of plague brings the loss not only the corpse everywhere and a great deal of property vanishing into the thin air, it directly affects all aspects of politics,economy and culture, especially brings the tremendous impact on masses'attitudes and social orders, facing the popularity of plague, the government has taken many measures to control the spread of plague, such as seeking divine help to prey, fighting witchcraft, promulgating the medical prescription, constracting medicine and sending medicines, establishing the medical relief organization, improving the public environment and so on .They are playing a leading role in plague rescue peocess, However the relief activities that government implements the greatly reflect a kind of politics, although the standing relief organization has established and moved in the society,but these organiations appear the distortion in the movement because of bureaucratie apparatus's low efficient and powerful group's intefere, in addition to the local financial shortage, therefore the relief activity that the country implement is impossible to meet the masses'needs. the local power may make up for defects in the country power, effectively alleviates the sperad of plague .of course, the rescue of plague can't get away from the masses and medicalscientist's participation. with the appearence of registered permanent address of city and village, there are totally different with the masses between city and village in medical relief patterns. Simultaneously the medical scientists not only take part in the treats and cures of plague , but also gain certain achievements in the theory of plague .In a word , the plague as an important constituence of ecological environment there, it efficiently adjust the ecosystem of the south-east areas of two Song.