Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth afternoon her hour came. For a while she sat in panic, then, when she could stand the pain no longer, asked a soldier sitting near by to call for help...
...another bench sat a boy about 13, naked save for a pair of drawers. Over his body were red scars where he'd been burned. Our medics had no salve for burns with them, so the boy sat there, shivering from head to foot and in great pain...
...Aches & Pains. "Pain is a common symptom of psychoneurosis." When a pa tient announces that "she aches all over," Dr. Alvarez begins to suspect that she is a bundle of nerves. His suspicion is confirmed if she is unable to tell him her main complaint, grumbles about trivialities, trembles, answers his questions irrelevantly, fails to let him finish a sentence...
Heart and Arthritis. A pain above the stomach is sometimes diagnosed as a symptom of angina pectoris, peptic ulcer or gastritis, when the ailment actually is arthritis. If the pain does not come from fast walking, stair-climbing or anger, heart trouble can be ruled out; if there are no symptoms connected with eating, ulcers also are eliminated...
...When the pain is a superficial ache or burning that gets worse when the patient sits or lies down, it is pretty sure to be arthritis or rheumatism. A simple way to tell arthritis from rheumatism is a blood sedimentation test: if the sedimentation rate is less than 10 mm. an hour, it is probably rheumatism...