Conduction of Visceral Pain

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ALTHOUGH our Puritan ancestors may have thought that pain was a scourge of God to try the soul of man, few modern philosophers would agree with this concept. The attempt to control chronic pain by surgery constitutes a relatively new field of medical endeavor, and most of our knowledge about it dates from the advent of local anesthesia. The only suitable experimental animal is man himself, as even our closest furry relatives cannot tell us what they feel. Furthermore, as we shall see, cats, dogs and even monkeys are poor experimental animals, since there are known differences between their pathways . . .
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