ABDOMINAL PAIN

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It is sad to have to admit today that, with all the facilities of modern medical diagnosis at his disposal, the best of clinicians is still unable to explain many an abdominal pain. He can somewhat justify his ignorance so long as 2 inches of skin and fat and muscle lie between him and the apparent seat of the trouble, but what is he to say when the surgeon looks up after a careful exploration and announces that he has been unable to find any sign of disease? Should the physician then wash his hands of the problem by questioning the reality of the pain which he cannot understand? Should he comfort himself by calling it "nervous," or should he not bestir himself to search for new microscopic or perhaps purely chemical causes for it? Should he not more resolutely face the fact that severe pain can arise in tissues

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