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"These small ivory figures are on display in the Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai, China. They were used in ancient times to depict the site of pain of a female patient to the doctors in attendance who would invariably have been males. It would not have been proper to point to their own body to show the site". Taken by Mike







 
 
 

Creation date: Dec 14, 2007 11:06pm     Last modified date: Nov 23, 2011 11:15am   Last visit date: Mar 7, 2024 8:51pm
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