Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Freeman and James Watts of George Washington University, pioneers in psychosurgery, told of having performed prefrontal lobotomy - a brain operation which frees the patient from feelings of anxiety and fear - on patients who were suffering unbearable pain from chronic disease (TIME, Dec. 23). The operation had no effect on the disease, and did nothing to lessen the pain; but the patients, freed of anxiety, now found their suffering bearable, and some even laughed at it. The doctors' conclusion: "When pain no longer raises a mental picture of future disability, it can be borne with equanimity...
Morphine is the best pain-killing drug that doctors know. But it has grave defects: it is habit-forming, makes many patients sick, gradually weakens in its effect until bigger & bigger doses must be given. A new drug which seems to be a great improvement on morphine is now being studied by the U.S. Public Health Service and other researchers. The new drug, amidone, appears much less likely to cause addiction than morphine...
...extremely powerful drug, it may be used in smaller doses than morphine, and its pain-killing effect sometimes lasts eight to ten hours. It even controls the extreme pain of late stages of cancer. The Germans reported that they have used it (intravenously) in amputations, and even in head operations. The patient remains fully conscious and can talk with the surgeon...
...started as a routine day. But after a morning of conferences, the King felt a month-old pain heavy on his chest. He canceled a luncheon date with his brother. As he mounted the steps to his private rooms, coronary thrombosis smote him. He sat a moment on the steps, groped his way to his rooms, rang for an attendant to bring him a glass of water. By the time a doctor arrived, the King of the Hellenes, who had lived a lonely life, had died a lonely death...
During the tournament, no wrestlers from 15 colleges earnestly tried to tear each other apart-within carefully prescribed limits. College rules forbid bending opponent's fingers, holding his nose, gouging his eyes, strangling him, or in any way causing him unnecessary pain and inconvenience. Nevertheless, the boys succeeded in getting tangled up (see cuts...