Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to scrawl about the coming of death: "Angina? Pseudo? Raising right hand over head ... hot water . . . relief. Angina . . . pain returning three to five minutes . . . gradual and gradual letup...
...Tight, tearing pain . . . bronchial spasm over point of sternum [breastbone...
...which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...
...Leopold Thoma. a rugged and persevering psychologist of the University of Vienna, has for some 30 years been exploring the therapeutic uses of hypnosis on stammering, neuroses, childbirth pain. He holds the record for mass hypnosis, having once entranced 180 people at a crack. Reflecting that the nature of hypnosis is not well understood. Dr. Thoma some years ago decided to see what he could learn by applying hypnotic technique to highly intelligent animals. He chose the chimpanzee...
...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...