Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children are much more susceptible than adults. Early symptoms are like those of many other diseases-restlessness or drowsiness, fever, irritability. The infected child may vomit once or twice, may be either constipated or have diarrhea. More significant are a sore, stiff neck and spine, pain in the back, arms and legs...
When Dr. Kyle Wood Golley and Dr. Edward Patrick Smith saw what Mrs. Forster was producing, they sent a hurry call for Surgeon Daniel James Pessagno. He cut the children apart, left each about an inch of colon. He used no anesthetic, for newborn children feel no pain. Since it is possible to exist without a colon, Mrs. Forster's children may live long. If so, surgeons will try to naturalize their orifices...
...horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema's cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse's mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema's face...
Another peep: "What is very peculiar about Lincoln's stories and jokes, his own and those he appropriated from others, is the fact that many, if not most, are of an aggressive or algolagnic nature, treating of pain, suffering and death, and that a great many of them were so frankly sexual as to be classed as obscene...
...week Sheila Klavan arrived in Manhattan, weary and shabby after walking and hitchhiking from Chicago. He went to call on Banker Dean, who repeated what he had written. He started to show Klavan out, walking ahead of him. He felt a light blow on his back, then a piercing pain. Desperate, depressed Sheila Klavan had stabbed Banker Dean with an icepick...