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Hua Tuo was a celebrated physician and surgeon in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
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Hua Tuo was the first doctor in the world who invented the anaesthetic, called ma fei san, and applied it to his surgical operations.
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Patients were asked to have ma fei san so that they could undergo operations without pain. This was no small feat in those days.