Dickson on Pain and Death: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, October 13th, 1859 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Dickson on Pain and Death<br/><br/>Yet we are not always, it must be clearly stated, to evade the application of painful remedies. Some of these are among our most efficient and useful means of ultimate relief and beneficent in?uence. They are also very powerful and prompt though indirect anaesthetics. A blister sometimes soothes a patient into a sweet sleep by diverting a local dea termination previously painful; and I have seen both neural= git and in?ammatory agony so suddenly and perfectly res moved by acupuncture that the patient fainted at once from  what he himself termed  absolute and positive pleasure.

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