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About 200 people heard Wald, who recently returned from a five-week visit to the People's Republic of China, speak on "Chinese Medicine and Science...
Chinese hospitals and universities involve "a bit of a culture shock, something you have to get used to if you can--I could-because the physicians and professors take a back seat," Wald said. "The administrative Revolutionary Committees are chaired not by a professor--not even by a dean. In fact, they don't have deans: they have responsible persons...
...Wald described the use of acupuncture in treatment and as anesthesia and the reattachment of severed limbs as the two greatest advances of Chinese medicine...
...Wald surmised that the reattachment of limbs developed when a machinist whose hand had been cut off asked a surgeon to sew it back on and, told it was impossible, said, "Hey, you read your Little Red Book lately...
...Wald said that reattachments are rarely performed in America partly because "if you did sew on such a hand, you couldn't write a paper...