ACUPUNCTURATION

n. A-kna—putnkm-m's hulu. See ACUPUNCTURE. ACUPUNCTURE, n. _ A?k-u?-pusnk'tu?r, Gr, Baôdores. Lat., acupunctura (from acus, a needle, and punctitrd, a puncture). Fr., acupuncture, acuponcture, ponction capillaire. Get., Acupunctir, ‘Nadelstich, Nadelstechen, Tiefstechen. Tt. agapuatura. Sp., acupuntura, ‘The kin ing, Zin king. or zinkien Sf the Chinese’, a method of treating diseases by plunging one or more needles Äeep into the body. St was latrod ubed fats Furope from China or Japan toward the close of the seventeenth century, and was much resorted to for a the, It is still used occasionally, mostly for neuralgla.—Electrolytic a, See Electro-PUNCTURE.— Multiple a. Fr..a. multiple, The procedure of making a number of punctures (& &.. into an abdominal cyst, to excite adhesion between the cyst and the abdominal wall, so that the former ean be opened without openiug the Peritoneal’ cavity). [A. Trou eau, S'pull. gén. de thérap.,” 1862, p. 517.]. ACURE,n. Atkutr’, See ACUITION. AGUS AAr P 5