Is there an event in history in which the ancients perfectly controlled the epidemic?

We all think that 2020 is an extraordinary year. COVID-19 has been spreading in other countries until the second half of this year. It can be said that this is the biggest natural disaster since 1960, but we humans have not been defeated, and we are still actively fighting the virus. So did the ancients encounter such natural disasters in ancient times? In the history of hundreds of years, human beings have encountered many plagues, some of which are serious, such as the Black Death that took hundreds of years to cure in Europe and smallpox that almost made Indians disappear. ? How did the ancients do it?

First, find a way to treat it. Because ancient medicine and science were not developed, there was no way to know what the disease was and whether there were infectious factors, so once it happened, the first thing the ancients thought of was to see a doctor and treat it. According to historical records, smallpox not only spread in India, but also appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and it also appeared with high frequency. Kangxi, the well-known emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was afraid that smallpox would spread to more people, so he didn't sit on the throne until smallpox recovered. There has always been a popular saying in the Qing dynasty:? The birth of a child is not over until smallpox appears, and confinement is not over. ? From this, we can know how serious smallpox was in the Qing dynasty, and it also made the people in the Qing dynasty very afraid.

Second, isolate patients separately. Although the ancients were not very developed in medicine, when the epidemic was serious, the first reaction of the ancients was to isolate these patients alone. During the Western Han Dynasty, many people were infected with the plague because of the large-scale outbreak of locust plague. According to historical records, government departments in the Western Han Dynasty infected more people in order to prevent the plague from spreading again. It is decided to arrange a big empty house for people with plague, assign special personnel to guard it, and send some free medicines to these patients on time every day to control the development of the disease.

I have to say that we ancients had a sense of crisis about viruses in ancient times. If the situation is wrong, put these sick people together to prevent the virus from spreading and infecting more people.