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Something wrong?A surgeon in second-century China who put patients under with wine and cannabis powder, then operated while they slept - the first recorded use of general anaesthesia, seventeen centuries before ether.
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Hua Tuo lived through the late Eastern Han dynasty, a physician whose name survives in the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han. He combined wine with mafeisan - "cannabis boil powder" - to knock patients out before surgery, a technique no earlier Chinese text describes. Beyond the knife he worked in acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal medicine, and created the Wuqinxi, a set of therapeutic exercises modeled on the movements of five animals: tiger, deer, bear, ape, crane. He died around 208, his methods remembered long after the dynasty collapsed.
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