...moisture rather than the coldness of the application * * *. Later, in 1872, Mitchell wrote as follows: Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize the influence which long continued and unendurable pain may have on both body and mind. Under such torments the temper...

...novelist, and a major figure in medical research and observation of wounds and wound pain, writes. Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize...lasted for days or weeks, the whole surface became hyperaesthetic. and the senses grew to be only avenues for fresh and increasing tortures, until every...

...Consequences, Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1872, pp 195-201, 272, 292-295, 302-303, and 306. Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize...lasted for days or weeks, the whole surface became hyperaesthetic, and the senses grew to be only avenues for fresh and increasing tortures, until every...

...agonizing pain. Mitchell, SW (1872). Injuries of nerves and their consequences. Philadelphia: Lippincott. "Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize the influence which long continued and unendurable pain may have upon both body and mind." Mortimer, JT (1968). Pain suppression...

...novelist. and a major figure in medical research and observation of wounds and wound pain. writes. Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize...lasted for days or weeks. the whole surface became hyperaesthetic. and the senses grew to be only avenues for fresh and increasing tortures. until every...

...suffering from chronic, often intractable, pain is well described by Mitchell in the following way: Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize...which long-continued and unendurable pain may have on both body and mind. . . . Under such torments the temper changes, the most amiable grow irritable,...