1. This is another example of an emotional treatment method used by Zhu Danxi, a famous doctor during the Jin and Yuan dynasties. A scholar, whose wife died shortly after their marriage, plunged himself into morose bereavement by weeping all the time and finally fell ill.
2. The well-known doctors all failed in treating him, and all kinds of precious medicines showed no effect. My son. . . . I'm so sorry, but there's nothing I can do.
3. Doctor Zhu was sent for.
4. Your pulse indicates a pregnancy which seems to have existed for several months.
5. The scholar laughed wildly. Ha ha ha.... is this a doctor of great fame? He's only a charlatan who can't tell male from female.
6. After that, the patient giggled to himself whenever he was reminded of this, and laughed over the absurdity with others. Won't a charlatan like this do a lot of harm to people? I could hardly believe it.
7. His appetite recovered, his mood improved as the time went on, and his symptoms disappeared at last.
8. Then he was made to understand that the "laughingstock cure" was an emotional treatment in accordance with the theory of banishing moroseness with amusement. You should give your gratitude to the doctor now.
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