Abstract
‘Cough' can be developed by many causes and the first representative symptom for respiratory diseases which was first referenced in ${\ll}$So Mun${\cdot}$Hae Ron${\gg}$ (素問)${\cdot}$(咳論) and repeated in many medical books to date. Among those medical books, four representative men, Kum Won sa dae ga(金元四大家)- Yoo wan so(劉完素), Jang jong jung(張從政), Lee dong won(李東垣) and Ju jin hyeong(侏震亨), presented new ideas and opinions on rules of occurrence and transformation in disease due to prevalence of wars and febrile communicable diseases during the Kum-Won period(金元時代). I have concluded the following while researching the books of Kum Won sa dae ga(金元四大家).