조선후기 역병(疫病) 감염에 따른 가족 구성원의 대응 양상

Abstract

This manuscript introduces the infection of a contagious disease of the family of Jijusagongpa (知奏事公派) branch of Yeongil Jeong Clan(迎日鄭氏) that Haminjae(含忍齋) Jeong Guk-chae(鄭國采) belonged to and countermeasures of family members against the disease. The family has the history of suffering from epidemics that 3 family members died from epidemics until the year 1811 after having total 7 patients starting with Jeong Guk-chae‘s great-grandparents who were infected with smallpox(天然痘) in 1715. As a result of examining the brutal history of epidemics that the family had to cope with over about 100 years, First, carrying over to later generations, an evidence that they took more reasonable method of correspondence against contagious disease was found. The foregoing implies that the family saw through the mechanism of epidemics from a scientific perspective. Second, but nonetheless, it is also noted that will for isolation to prevent the epidemic from spreading was not displayed appropriately. Such a phenomenon was especially noticeable in case infected patients were parents. Third, this manuscript seized situation that they were sick with serious trauma after pestiferous patients died. Meanwhile, with a A mournful pray for great-grandmothers’ maintenance of a scanty existence, the measure corresponding to self-isolation taken by Jeong Guk-chae in 1811 and the history of suffering from epidemics that the family experienced provide useful implications for THE COVID-19 pandemic of the present.