[Measles and medical care of the Edo era]

In Bunkyu 2, measles was prevelant very much in all over Japan and on that occasion resembles it, and a measles picture and a called ukiyoe print are published in large quantities in a town of Edo, and taboo of measles and medical care information such as prescription of medicine were pictured in a measles picture, but, by a conventional study, they are considered to depend on private enterprise medical care and a supersitition, the medicine book that it is easy. Because outlook on authority of assumed the history of measles medical care before reaching it in Bunkyu 2 it, this report lectured on intellect of medicine and medical care showing what they developed extensively in people level to the measles picture for this.