Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
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...
Former History 1 students may recall with pain the words "trivium" and "quadrivium." These constituted the standard curriculum at the medieval cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...
...terrible heat and light and stench that filled the room, with the fire roaring and smoke pouring out of the open door, his last attendants saw Trotsky burning, his face turning black and shriveling away, his body shrinking so fast that he seemed to be writhing in pain. Natalie Sedova Trotsky was carried fainting...
...early 19th Century, itinerant U. S. barbers traveled from town to town, carrying bags of dirty knives, and even old steels from corsets, for paring customers' corns. They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...