Chapter 78
— Treating A Headache, A Famous Physician Dies; Giving The Last Words, The Crafty Hero Departs.
The kindly gaoler who feeds the doomed physician — fetches the Black Bag treatise from Jincheng as his bequest, buries Hua Tuo at his own expense, and comes home to find his wife lighting the fire with the book. What he snatches back is a few pages of animal recipes: the whole art, lost.