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J Z Bowers

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PubMed1985

The warm chain.

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PubMed1978

Reception of acupuncture by the scientific community: from scorn to a degree of interest.

This article presents a comprehensive review of the clinical phenomenon of acupuncture. The historical development of this technique, in China, in other parts of Asia, and in the West is discussed. Contemporary advances in acupuncture applications, such as in anesthesia and in the treatment of drug addiction are reviewed. Up-to-date material regarding current physiological theories of acupuncture's mechanism is included. Acupuncture is seen as presenting of challenge to the scientific community which is moving from a posture of scorn to justifiable interest.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1977

Japanese medicine in Manchuria: the South Manchuria Medical College.

During the eleven years of its existence as Namman Igakudo, the school graduated 421 physicians; after it was upgraded to a university-level school in 1922, there were, 1,181 graduates until the college closed as a Japanese institution in 1946. There were over 500 graduates from the second-level, Igaku Semmon-bu, between 1929 and 1946. The graduated of the school became leaders of Japanese-sponsored programs in medicine and public health in Manchuria. Others returned to the home islands as practitioners; those who wished to enter academic medicine usually turned in time to Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine. The S.M.M.C. played a unique role in medical research in Japan. Further, it became one of the leading medical schools in China.

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