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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3. You can also browse the collection for Japan (Japan) or search for Japan (Japan) in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
lied fire; and the patient asking for an immediate application, the moxa was applied that afternoon to the back of the neck and to the spine. The moxa is a mode of cauterization known to the ancients, but in modern times is chiefly confined to Japan and China, where it is freely applied. It is now rejected as a remedy in civilized countries, and is barely mentioned in the medical literature of the present day, milder applications being found equally effective. Larousse's Dictionnaire Univeds questioned its efficacy. He preferred at the time a milder remedy than fire. Dr. Brown-Sequard himself, so far as known, never resorted to it again. It is rejected generally by the medical profession, and is hardly resorted to this side of Japan. One lacking Sumner's good constitution and determined spirit could not have borne it. This, however, should be said, that Sumner to the last retained confidence in the physician who applied it. George Sumner was, during the entire period of