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Article: CHINESE MEDICINE BLENDING OLD METHODS WITH NEW
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 2, 1987
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Second of two articles.
BEIJING - The 50-year-old man lies silently on the operating
table, his head shaved and marked where the surgeons will cut into
his skull.
Smiling briefly, the patient, Duan Chen-Ji, raises his right
arm in a small, gallant wave. Behind him, on the wall, hangs a
series of brain scans -- transparencies made from modern Western
equipment. They give the location of a pituitary tumor that is
threatening Duan's vision.
But a major part of the anesthesia for Duan's surgery will be
anything but modern. It is acupuncture, a cornerstone of Chinese
medical tradition, used widely for surgery during the Cultural
Revolution, when foreign expertise was shunned.
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