Synopsis
Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopedia, Vol. 6: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People; With Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings
Although in most cases we are to regard pain merely as a symptom to be removed only by means which remove the lesion which occasions it, there are cases in which, although it is only a symptom, it constitutes a chief element of disease, and one against which remedies must be specially directed. As examples of these cases, may be mentioned neuralgia, gastralgia, colic, dysmenorrhoea, and perforation of the intestines; and in a less degree, the stitch of pleurisy, which, if not relieved, impedes the respiration, and the pain of tenesmus, which often causes such efforts to empty the lower bowel, as seriously to disturb the func tions of the intestine, and to exhaust the strength.
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