Chapter 5 Look it up！

a famous patient operated on by him was general guan yu (see stories from the romance of the three kingdoms). in a battle guan yu had been injured in the arm by a lethally poisonous arrow. invited to give treatment, hua tuo cut open the lesion and scraped the poison off the bone. all the while, the general went on playing chess without a wince. his wound soon healed and the patient suffered no disability whatever.with the use of his oral anaesthetic, he is said to have performed many successful major operations involving internal organs. he must have had a fine grasp of anatomy and physiology.he was also an early exponent of physical exercise for its curative and preventive value. by observing and imitating the movements of certain animals (like the tiger, bear, monkey and deer) and birds, he designed a set of callisthenics which he called "the game of five animals". whit this, he cured certain chronic diseases, notably disorders of the digestive system, and the game became quite popular in certain regions of the country during his lifetime.but this giant in chinese medicine did not come to a happy end. called in by cao cao, the prime minister, to treat his migraine, the doctor relieved him of his pain instantly with the application of a single acupuncture needle at the effective point. cao cao wanted him to remain at court as his personal physician. unwilling to spend his time in the service of a handful of people, hua tuo declined on the excuse of an ailing mother who needed his constant attention. when cao cao found out this was an evasion, he had him arrested and finally put to death.while in prison, the doctor asked his gaoler to help smuggle his medical works to the outside world for the benefit of the people. unable to persuade the gaoler, who was afraid to take the risk, hua tuo committed his works to the flames. this was a great loss to the medical heritage of the country.一篇關(guān)于秦始皇的簡(jiǎn)單介紹。qing shi huangqing shi huang was one of the most brillant politics through chinese history ,whose name was ying zheng. at the age of 13 ,he became the king of qing. in 221bc he finally nuited china after beating other 6 countries - qi yan chu zhao wei han .at the age of 39 he became the emperor of the qing empire .during his time ,the great wall was built,which is known as the eighth mir in the world. in 207bc he died.一篇關(guān)于愛(ài)迪生的事跡介紹。thomas edisonthomas edison was a famous american scientist. he was born in 1847. when he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. he was in school for only three months. he asked his teacher a lot of strange questions. most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. the teacher thought the boy was not bright and was not worth teaching. when he told this to edison’s mother, she took her son out of school. as she had been a teacher, she taught him herself. the boy read a lot. soon he became very interested in science. at the age of ten, edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. ever since then, he never stopped searching for new and better ways to do things.