10/21/98 Alpine iceman seen as first
acupuncture patient
VIENNA (Reuters) - Tattoos found on a prehistoric Alpine mummy
are evidence that Europeans practiced acupuncture some 2,000
years before the Chinese, scientists said in Vienna Monday.
The tattoos on the Tyrolean neolithic man were not intended
to impress the opposite sex but may have formed an ancient acupuncture
chart used long before the therapy was developed in the Far
East, they said. "It looks like an early form of acupuncture
originated in central Europe," said Dr.Frank Bahr, president
of the German Academy for Acupuncture, who was in Vienna to
present the results of a study into the tattoos.
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