dialectics

Recommendations

Info

Patients with Broken Walk Again Backs by the Peking Hospital of Traditional Medicine, Paraplegia Group OUR paraplegia multiple treatment group, formed in March 1969, was specially charged with treating patients with traumatic paraplegia (paralysis of the lower part of the body caused by injury). Guided by Chairman Mao's philosophic thinking and his idea of combining Chinese traditional and Western medicine, we have had initial success in curing this "incurable" condition. Of the 151 paraplegia patients we have treated in the past three years, 124 can now walk with crutches, while 15 get about without any aid. Eight have gone back to work. Curing the "Incurable" Traumatic paralysis of the lower part of the body is caused by a fall or other accident resulting in fracture of the patient's spine and damage to the nerves of the spinal cord. The patients became bed-ridden, and in time suffered from muscle atrophy, incontinence and bedsores. Bourgeois medical "authorities" routinely pro- 34
nounced traumatic paraplegia "incurable." After China's liberation in 1949, revolutionary medical workers made great efforts to correct this condition, but Liu Shao-chi's pernicious counter-revolutionary revisionist line in medical and health work interfered, and their efforts were futile. Then, during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, we criticized this hindrance of the Liu Shao-chi revisionist line in medical and health work, raising our class consciousness in the process. We were eager to relieve traumatic paraplegia patients of their suffering, but were doubtful whether the condition could really be cured. After studying Chairman Mao's philosophic teaching that "the movement of change in the world of objective reality is never-ending and so is man's cognition of truth through practice," we realized that man's knowledge in curing illness has also developed through practice from ignorance, and passed from little to substantial knowledge. "Incurable" illnesses of the past are curable today. Considered from the dialectical-materialist viewpoint no disease in the world is absolutely incurable. Those who are determined to learn through practice can grasp the laws of overcoming diseases step by step in the course of struggle against them. Clinical experience shows the loss of motor function and the incontinence as resulting from badly damaged spinal nerves. But, not all the nerves are damaged, and efforts should be directed at making the patient's undamaged spinal nerves play their maximum role, and also at restoring the function of the damaged nerves as far as possible. Following Chairman Mao's teaching to combine Chinese traditional and Western medical practice, we availed our- 35
Page 1: Serving the People with Dialectics
Page 4 and 5: Printed in the People's Republic of
Page 7: Contents Raising Peanut Yields 1 Ap
Page 10 and 11: failed. Drought hit in the spring o
Page 12 and 13: Yao Shih-chang in the field before
Page 14 and 15: those w e r e e m p t y . F u r t h
Page 16 and 17: olled them between my fingers. Woul
Page 18 and 19: Applying Philosophy in Transport by
Page 20 and 21: find those phenomena that gave clue
Page 22 and 23: three times its width. It was like
Page 24 and 25: We concluded that three factors wer
Page 26 and 27: Transporting equipment over eightee
Page 28 and 29: politics. W e d e t e r m i n e d t
Page 30 and 31: data against an old folk saying tha
Page 32 and 33: Taking careful note of changes in w
Page 34 and 35: Keeping Vegetables Fresh by the Pek
Page 36 and 37: perature spoiled t h e m b y freezi
Page 38 and 39: Solving the Particular Contradictio
Page 40 and 41: continued. Insufficient v e n t i l
Page 44 and 45: t selves of modern knowledge of the
Page 46 and 47: matic paraplegia. We used this new
Page 48 and 49: immobilization which results in ser
Page 50 and 51: was marked. Limbs regained their fu
Page 52 and 53: sibility, failing to be "more conce
Page 54 and 55: Banner* in Inner Mongolia was addre
Page 56: There, I met a man named Keng. I th

dialectics

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?