Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good surgeon but a poor chef; nine years ago, trying his hand at cooking, he only succeeded in burning it badly with boiling grease. Ignoring medical training, which calls for wrapping the burn in a bandage, he plunged the burned hand into a sinkful of cold water. The pain stopped. He kept his hand in cold water for an hour, permanently killing the pain, and his hand healed quickly...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An electrical current, alternating at a frequency of two million cycles per second and flowing through electrodes implanted in the frontal lobe of the brain, has been effectively used to relieve pain and suffering of patients with incurable cancer without causing major psychological damage...
...making serial lesions at intervals of several days," Dr. White reported, "the reaction of the patient can be observed and the leucotomy carried to the point where concern over pain and need for narcotics cease...
Reporting on 21 cases of malignant disease, Dr. White said that 15 were "effectively relieved of their pain and the suffering that so often develops in the terminal stages of cancer." Five others had incomplete but "worthwhile" relief; one failed to obtain significant benefit. Another's pain was effectively relieved but the patient succumbed to pneumonia spreading from infected cancerous tissue in throat...
...Attempts to relieve by frontal leucotomy (lobotomy) the nagging persistent pain and dread that cancer may inflict on its victims," Dr. White said, "date back 15 years. Except as a procedure of last resort, bilateral extensive lobotomies have never been popular. The ensuing deterioration in personality and mentation can be appalling, much more so than in the psychotic who has undergone a similar procedure...