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  <mods:abstract>Churchill's Treatise is the first English monograph devoted to the subject of acupuncture; it describes four cases for which the therapy provided relief of pain. In 1828, James Morss Churchill published a companion work, describing the efficacy of acupuncture in cases of rheumatism, lumbago, and sciatica. Title page of James Morss Churchill's A treatise on acupunccturation, with the frontispiece showing an engraving of acupuncture needles</mods:abstract>
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