Hua Tuo, courtesy name Yuanhua, was a Chinese physician who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. Historical texts, such as Records of the Three Kingdoms and Book of the Later Han record Hua Tuo
A Qing dynasty illustration of Hua Tuo
Statue of Hua Tuo at the Mengjia Longshan Temple in Taipei
Statue of Hua Tuo at Guangdong Medical College in Dongguan
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Hua Tuo
…the fifth-century historical text Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu) record that Hua Tuo was from Qiao County (譙縣), Pei Commandery (沛郡) (in present-day Bozhou, Anhui) and that he studied Chinese classics throughout the Xu Province (covering parts of present-day Jiangsu and Shandong provinces). He refused…