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...some particularly weird moment in the latest installment of the Great American Melodrama, I had a consoling thought: well, at least it can't get any worse than this. Maybe it was when Howell Heflin, playing Senator Beauregard Claghorn, was in the midst of some bloviation, the point of which seemed to have escaped him. Or maybe it was when Orrin Hatch, playing Perry Mason, revealed that a key piece of evidence, a pubic hair, actually appeared on page 70 of The Exorcist and therefore couldn't possibly have been in Clarence + Thomas' Coke...
...Thelma Beauregard is a gray-haired, pleasant-faced woman of 67, who awoke one night four years ago at her home in Plymouth, Mass., with tingling and burning sensations running from her left elbow to her hand and down into her fingers. From then on, the slightest touch triggered sharp pain. Tests showed that Beauregard 's ulnar nerve had been damaged at her left elbow. Her right elbow showed the same damage, although for some unknown reason she felt pain only on the left side. She has had three operations on the recalcitrant nerve, but at most these provided...
Pain like Beauregard's is still something of a mystery to doctors. What caused it? Why did it arrive one night without warning? Why will it not go away? According to Neurologist Howard Fields of U.C.S.F., there is intriguing evidence that in many cases when pain persists for several months, changes of a relatively permanent nature occur in the nervous system, so that even if the original cause of the pain is removed, the sensation of pain continues. "We don't have any idea how that comes about," he says. Trying to reverse the changes, he observes...
...simpler times, suffering like Beauregard's would have been attributed to evil influences. While early man had no trouble comprehending acute pain caused by injury, chronic pain was relegated to the occult realm of medicine men, sorcerers and shamans. Ancient Egyptians believed that chronic pain was caused by spirits, gods and the dead, but by the 16th century B.C. they had discovered a corporeal way to treat it. Opium is recommended as an analgesic in the Ebers Papyrus, an early reference work listing nearly a thousand prescriptions used in the times of the Pharaoh Amenhotep. Egyptians and some Eastern...