H. Doyl Taylor

It is indeed a privilege and a pleasure to be with you here today, even if I am trying to find a way through what still remains essentially an uncharted wilderness called acupuncture. To find a starting place even, in talking about acupuncture, isn’t a simple chore. I have read most of the literature, I think, on acupuncture—particularly its history. Even there, there are few hard facts to be found. So, after the usual amount of historical research, I telephoned the man generally considered to be one of the best informed U. S. physicians on acupuncture, Dr. Cho-luh Li, a neurosurgeon at the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. I asked him about the story, repeated …