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More than a dozen such cases have been reported, writes Britain's famed Neurologist Macdonald Critchley in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the more closely they are studied, the less they are understood. Some outstanding examples...
...such cases, says Dr. Critchley, indifference to pain is congenital. No hereditary pattern has been detected; it occurs in different races, equally often in men and women. The painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there...
...bargain of the year, a round trip flight between Boston and Zurich over the Christmas holidays, for only $266 was offered last night by Angus C. Critchley-Waring of the Business School...
According to Critchley-Waring, a former member of the British Army Ski Team, "Davos, the objective of the trip, has some of the finest skiing in the world." He hopes to be able to arrange three meals and a bed for members of the group...
Said Neurologist Macdonald Critchley of London: "Sleeping little matters little...