This photograph shows Liu and Chang, two brave herbalists who stayed on at the plague hospital for three months and treated 2,000 patients in 1911. In this photograph they are with a medical personnel who is dressed in protective clothing covering all parts of his body except for the upper part of his face. They are standing outside the plague hospital. Title devised by Library staff.

Credit Line

All rights reserved. Wu Lien-teh, 1911

Subjects

• Herbalists--China--Photographs
• Medical personnel--China--Photographs
• Medicine, Chinese
• Plague--China