Treatment and Cure

Class consciousness was more important than medical expertise in realizing the "miracles" of Chairman Mao: "Quite a few deaf-mutes in this school had previously been treated in big city hospitals, but none had been cured. The comrades of the medical team were determined to cure them. They studied Chairman Mao's teaching: 'You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and its past history!' ... [The medical team] began a battle to locate new acupuncture points for curing deaf-mutes by experimenting on their own bodies. The six members of the medical team with the treasured red books in their hands stood in front of Chairman Mao's portrait and solemnly pledged: 'Chairman Mao! In order to carry out your instruction, we are willing to sacrifice our lives. In order to thoroughly emancipate our deaf-mute class brothers, we are willing to injure our own bodies in carrying out repeated experiments in acupuncture.'"

"Mao Tse-tung's Thought Opens a New Road to the Curing of Deaf-Mutes," China Pictorial, March 1969

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