Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to solitary confinement for three years. Wrote Paloczi-Horvath in the London Sunday Times of his own five years in a Communist prison: "There is a chance for expiation, for facing oneself and one's past squarely. But solitary confinement, utter degradation and an ocean of pain leave curious traces on the subconscious mind. They lead to almost senseless moral perfectionism in some people, and in others a ferocious craving for revenge...
There are other lessons to be learned, too. The class had hardly started last week when Wingback Hunter twisted away from his partner with an expression of considerable pain and asked: "What should you say if the girl steps on your foot?" Another student was apparently faced with the same social problem. "Dammit," came his anguished answer from across the floor, "say 'ouch!'" Sooner or later, every man in the class learns for himself. "One day a guy's a woman, the next a man," explains Brock. Just so his students can tell the difference...
...additional senses are valuable in medicine, especially in diseases of the nervous system. Example: a lab assistant who took glassware out of a sterilizer developed blisters on his hands though he felt no heat on handling the bottles. Neurological examination showed no sense of heat or pain in his palms, but other senses were normal. Diagnosis: syringomyelia, a disease of the spinal cord. Its site was located because the neurologists knew that with only the hands affected, the trouble must be where sensory nerves from the palm reach the spinal cord...
...Narcotics addiction is 100 times more common among physicians than the general population, reported Detroit's Dr. J. DeWitt Fox, after analyzing federal statistics. One doctor in every 100 is a present or possible future victim. Main reasons: emotional problems, pressure of work or pain, plus easy access to the drugs...
Best Foot. In Kansas City, Kans., Tommy Hess, 3, warned of pain by the doctor preparing to put a plaster cast on his broken foot, gingerly extended his leg, never whimpered during the 40-minute operation, only explained when the impressed doctor praised him, "It's the other foot that hurts...