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 Sòng-Yuán 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).