Late-Qīng physician of Liánjiāng 廉江 county (modern Zhànjiāng 湛江 prefecture, Guǎngdōng). Author of Shǔyì yuēbiān 鼠疫約編 / Shǔyì huìbiān 鼠疫汇編 (KR3eg041), the principal Chinese-medical monograph composed in immediate response to the great 1890–1894 Guǎngzhōu / Hong Kong plague epidemic — the start of the Third Plague Pandemic, in which bubonic plague that had begun in Yúnnán in the 1850s reached Guǎngzhōu in 1890–1893 in small annual outbreaks and erupted into a major epidemic in 1894.
The book gives traditional Chinese-medical analysis and prescription for shǔyì 鼠疫 (literally “rat-plague”) — a category that, although it has older roots in SòngYuán Lǐngnán medical writing, became canonically associated with bubonic plague through the Third Pandemic epidemics. Luó’s text is one of the principal Chinese-language sources for the medical response to those epidemics.
Lifedates are not preserved. No CBDB record. Source: Carol Benedict, Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford UP, 1996).