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Psalms of Two Davids, by Joel Schwartz '66. For those who missed George Wald's "rap session" on Cain and Abel last year, in which he explained it all. Song and dance, not to mention theater. At the Loeb...
...Acupuncture therapy may well be a form of 'soul' or psychological medicine, just as a surprising amount of western medical technique may be considered more as 'soul' medicine than as actual physiological treatment," Wald said. He cited morphine as one of the western world's 'soul' medicines...
While in China, Wald learned that over 500,000 successful acupuncture analgesia operations had been performed with a success rate of 90 per cent, he said. Wald added that it would not be long until acupuncture analgesia is commonly used throughout the western world...
...Wald had an acupuncture needle inserted between his thumb and forefinger, he said, to better understand the effects of acupuncture analgesia. He added that as the needle was twirled in his skin for several minutes, he felt an odd sense of numbing and tingling traveling up his arm, but felt no pain...
Although Chinese surgeons prefer acupuncture analgesia as a method of controlling pain, drugs are always made available in case the acupuncture does not work, Wald noted...