This Book Takes The Reader Around The Globe And Through The Centuries To Discover How Different Cultures Have Sought To Combat And Treat Physical Pain. With Colorful Stories And Sometimes Frightening Anecdotes, Dr. Thomas Dormandy Describes A Checkered Progression Of Breakthroughs, Haphazard Experiments, Ignorant Attitudes, And Surprising Developments In Human Efforts To Control Pain. Attitudes Toward Pain And Its Perception Have Changed, As Have The Means Of Pain Relief And Scientific Understanding. Dr. Dormandy Offers A Multi-cultural History That Culminates With A Discussion Of Today's Successes - And Failures - In The Struggle Against Pain. The Book's Exploration Is Fused With Accounts Of The Development Of Specific Methods Of Pain Relief, Including The Use Of Alcohol, Plants, Hypnosis, Religious Faith, Stoic Attitudes, Local Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, And Modern Analgesics. Dr. Dormandy Also Looks At The Most Recent Advances In Pain Clinics And Palliative Care For Patients With Terminal Disease As Well As The Prospects For Loosening Pain's Grip In The Future.--jacket. A Gift Of The Gods -- The Grape And The Poppy -- Roots, Barks, Fruit, And Leaves -- Pain Denied -- Pain Ignored -- The Heresies -- Healing And Holiness -- Islam -- The Age Of The Cathedrals -- Pain Exalted -- Rebirth, Rediscovery, And Reform -- Going To War -- Foundations -- Heavenly Dreams -- Animal Magnetism -- Pneumatic Medicine -- Laughing Gas -- The Terror Of The Knife -- Hospital Disease -- To The Threshold -- A Gentleman From The South -- This Yankee Dodge -- In Gower Street -- And Beyond -- Chloroform -- The Shape Of Dreams -- Mr. Anaesthetist -- Conflicting Views -- The Rights Of Pain -- Who Needs An Anaesthetic? -- The New Physiology. The New Pathology -- The Acute Abdomen -- Old Drugs, New Drugs -- The Bark Of The Willow -- Cocaine -- High Victorian Pain -- The Power Of Pain Control -- Seminal Years -- The Gift Of St. Barbara -- Tic Douloureux -- Twilight Sleep -- Dolorism -- Renoir -- Pills And Poisons -- The Surgery Of Pain -- The Schism -- Pain Mechanisms -- Pain Clinics -- Hospice. Thomas Dormandy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [503]-527) And Index.

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