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Chapter 15
— Taishi Ci Fights With The Young Overlord; Sun Ce Cuts Short The White Tiger King.
Hua Tuo's first appearance - physician who treats Zhou Tai's many wounds. Will reappear later treating Guan Yu and Cao Cao.
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Chapter 29
— The Little Chief Of The South Slays Yu Ji; The Green Eyed Boy Lays Hold On The South Land.
Hua Tuo; sent for by the dying Sun Ce; pronounces him untreatable due to the poison-arrow wound's spread.
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Chapter 75
— Guan Yu Has A Scraped-Bone Surgery; Lu Meng Crosses The River In White Robe.
Comes across the river unbidden, out of pure admiration, and scrapes the poisoned bone clean while the patient plays on — 'I have never seen such a patient... you are as if not from the earth but heaven.' Refuses the hundred ounces of gold and every fee after, leaving only dressings and a warning: no excitement for a hundred days.
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Chapter 78
— Treating A Headache, A Famous Physician Dies; Giving The Last Words, The Crafty Hero Departs.
His fame recited by Hua Xin — hashish anesthesia, the vomited worm, Chen Deng's parasites, the canary in the tumor — brings the summons; his honest prescription, opening the skull to drain the humor, sounds like murder to the haunted prince: 'the same sort of scoundrel as Ji Ping.' Tortured in prison, he gives his life's work, the Black Bag, to the one gaoler who was kind — and dies ten days later, his book burned to kindling by the gaoler's wife.