DEAR MRS STEWART
TRANSLATION OF YOUR GRAND FATHER’S PLAQUE
PLEASE FIND THE CHINESE TRANSLATION OF THE CHARACTERS APPEARING ON A PLAQUE GIVEN TO YOUR GRAND FÅTHER, DR CANTLIE BY MR LUO YINGMAN WHOSE WIFE HAD BEEN CURED BY DR CANTLIE.
TRANSLATION:
IN ANCIENT TIME THERE WAS A SKILLED CHINESE SURGEON CALLED HUA TUO WHO COULD CUT OPEN THE ABDOMEN OF A HUMAN BODY TO CURE. MY WIFE WAS ONCE SUFFERING FROM AN ABDOMINAL DISORDER AND IN CRITICAL CONDITIONS. THANKS TO DR CANTLIE, IT IS HE, WHO HAVING MY WIFE UNDERGONE A SURGICAL OPERATION, CARED AND CURED HER SUBSEQUENTLY. IT IS MY WIFE’S LUCK TO HAVE SEEN A DOCTOR AS GREAT AS HUA TUO. HERE ARE JUST A FEW WORDS TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO DR CANTLIE.
WRITTEN WHOLE HEARTEDLY BY LUO YINGMAN OF HUADI ON A NICE WINTER MORNING
THE 17TH YEAR IN THE REIGN OF EMPEROR GUANGXU
TRANSLATION OF THE 4 BIG CHARACTERS:
YOUR THERAPY IS WONDERFUL AS HUA TUO’S
NOTE:
HUA TUO
HUA TUO IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DOCTORS IN THE CHINESE HISTORY. HE IS THE FATHER OF ANAESTHESIAOLOGY FOR SURGICAL OPERATION. NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO WHILE CHINA WAS IN THE THREE-KINGDOM PERIOD, THERE WAS A WARLORD CALLED CAO CAO WHO SUFFERED FROM A SEVERE HEADACHE WHICH CAUSED HIM GREAT PAINS FROM TIME TO TIME. ONE DAY CAO CAO CALLED IN HUA TUO IN THE HOPE OF CURING HIS PAINS. HUA TUO SAID THAT THE ONLY WAY AND ONCE OF ALL TO LESSEN HIS PAINS WAS TO DO A SURGICAL OPERATION ON HIS HEAD. BEING A SUSPICIOUS PERSON, CAO CAO WAS SHOCKED AND THOUGHT THAT HUA TUO REALLY WANTED TO KILL HIM. SO HE PUT HUA TUO INTO PRISON. HUA TUO WAS VERY UPSET AND DISAPPOINTED. REALIZING THAT CAO CAO WOULD EVENTUALLY KILL HIM, HE BURNED ALL HIS PAPERS AND THE FORMULA OF ANAESTHESIAOLOGY. HE THOUGHT THAT IF HE KNEW NOTHING OF THIS ART HE WOULD BE A HAPPIER PERSON AND THUS THIS ART WAS LOST SINCE THEN.
