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Since the incorporation of Traditional Chinese Medicine into the Western-style hospitals in China, China has pioneered research into acupuncture's application and clinical effects. The Western World, particularly Europe, discovered acupuncture through France's acquisition of Vietnam, which they called the French Indochina. Dr. Nogier was a notable French doctor whose research on ear acupuncture between 1951 and 1996 built the bridge between oriental acupuncture and Western medicine.[http://www.americanacupuncture.com/history.htm] When President Nixon opened the doors in to China in 1972, acupuncture gained world wide recognition as a form of medical treatment. More attention was called to acupuncture when American journalist James Reston wrote an article in the ''New York Times'' about an emergency appendectomy he had experienced in China in which acupuncture was used as the anesthetic. [http://www.americanacupuncture.com/history.htm]