Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking is a rocky, corrugated tongue of land sticking out at the junction of the swift-flowing Kialing and Yangtze rivers. One evening last week, as the moon painted the rivers silver to guide the invading Japanese planes once more to their mark, the tongue squirmed and writhed in pain as never before...
...absolutely no first-aid treatment for large burns." During the first 72 hours, patients are more liable to die from shock than from burn. According to Dr. Aldrich, they should not be smeared with oils, but should be kept warm, given large amounts of fluids, and sedatives to relieve pain...
About one-quarter of mankind can save themselves pain and improve their own health by using hypnotism on themselves...
...said Hypnotist Andrew Salter of Manhattan last week, explaining in the Journal of General Psychology that 20 or 25% of normal adults can be hypnotized and can learn with little trouble to hypnotize themselves to produce the whole range of hypnotic phenomena-insensitivity to pain or noise, steely muscular rigidity, hallucinations, posthypnotic suggestion...
...person in 'four can sit down in a dentist's chair, hypnotize himself, tell himself he will feel no pain in his jaws, snap out of the trance, then be drilled into at painless length. Such posthypnotic anesthesia can be localized at will, lasts perhaps two hours, can be renewed. Warns Salter: "One must be careful not to misuse his autohypnotic ability to mask physical ailments which need a physician's care." But he recommends the technique for incurable cancer agonies...