华佗学医英文小故事 However, through diligent practice, the boy later learned to accurately measure the weight of herbal and other pharmaceutical ingredients using only his hands. The master was very much impressed by the boy's diligence and ingenuity, so he decided to teach him all the skills he knew. Soon, Hua became an expert in fields such as acupuncture, physiotherapy gynecology pediatrics and surgery. Particularly he later mastered expertise in surgery and anesthesia. He even invented mafeisan, an anesthetic herbal powder. Before Hua's time, Chinese doctors were helpless when treating patients with internal illness that could not be reached by acupuncture needles or herbal medicines. Using his innovative anesthetic powder, Hua could make an incision on a patient's abdomen and remove the bad tissues or diseased parts of organs. Then, he would stitch up the abdomen and ap ply some ointment to it. In four to five days, the pain would go and within a month, the patient would fully recover. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/99295bbf6629647d27284b73f242336c1eb93009.html