Word: pruritus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of pain normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...
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