Word: pained
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...intelligence. Turning to her father for help, she gets only his consistent but chilling advice that any assurance worth reaching she must reach by and in herself. Nor do the authors offer any facile solution. The girl finally kills herself, and it is made clear that it is bewildering pain, not a conviction of guilt, that drives her to it-that in the end she is still in doubt...
...hundreds of years medicine men believed that arthritis was caused by watery "humors" which settled in the joints. The ancient Romans burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...
...secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time" shuddered. When the end was near they gave him drugs to dull...
Next morning another colleague began to tickle Dr. Head's hand with cotton wool, fine hairs, hot and cold needles. He marked out the areas insensitive to pain and touch, took full notes on Dr. Head's sensations. It took several years for all feeling to return, but the arm healed perfectly...
Neurologists still remember Sir Henry's slashed arm. For pain is an important index in the diagnosis of brain and nerve injuries. A neurologist searching for a brain tumor in a patient with a weak, dragging left leg, for example, carefully pricks him with a pin to see where and how much he retains his sensation of pain. If the skin in a limited area is dulled, the neurologist knows that only a surface nerve is injured. If the patient is analgesic over a wide area, several nerves or even part of his brain may be damaged. By carefully...