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人教版英语选择性必修第一册
Unit1 People of achievement
Period 1 Reading and thinking
Tu YouYou Awarded Noble Prize
Can you name some Chinese doctors who used herbs(草药) for treatment in ancient times?
Hua Tuo was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China.
The Book of Later Han records Hua Tuo as the first person in China to use anesthesia(麻醉) during surgery. He used a general anesthetic combining wine with an herbal concoction called mafeisan (麻沸散)
Li Shizhen was a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty. He wrote a famous book Compendium of Materia Medica(本草纲目), which is a collection of Chinese herbs . It included 2000 Chinese herbs with millions of characters . He visited mountains, tasted different kinds of herbs and even did experiments on himself .
It took him 37 years to finish the book ,which is considered to be a great contribution to the development of Chinese medicine.
Tu Youyou, born in 1930 in Ningbo, has