Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Acupuncture

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​Acupuncture, the name of a surgical operation among the Chinese and Japanese, which is performed by pricking the part affected with a silver needle. They employ this operation in headaches, lethargies, convulsions, colics, &c.; and it has more lately been introduced into British practice for the cure of some forms of neuralgia.

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