Huangdi neijing

For a recent analysis of transmission from technicians (specifically, diviners) to the scholarly milieu see Harper, Physicians and Diviners, which examines the traces of iatromancy (medical divination) in the Huangdi neijing (Inner Scripture of the Yellow Emperor). Harper also provides an extended survey of the esoteric arts before the Han period in his Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought. For the Han period see especially Ngo, Divination, magie et politique. 

However, the earliest written documentation on malaria can be found in the legendary Canon of Medicine , TheYellow Emperor s Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing), dating from 2698 to 2598 BC. This book describes epidemics, characterised by febrile paroxysms (fever attacks occurring in flushes) in conjunction with enlarged spleen, which can be interpreted as Plasmodium vivax- or Plasmodium malariae-infections (Fig. 5.165). [416, 417]... 

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