NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Behavioral Medicine, Spinal Cord, Trepanning
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Pressure, heat, water, exposure to sun, electric fish or poppy berry to treat: greek and roman. Experienced because of the head ( hippocrates) or the heart (aristotle: no separation of the mind and body. Emphasis on empiricism: as the empires fell so did this and became more religion, middle ages. Pain is due to god"s punishment from original sin. Treatment was looked in the eyes of religion like prayer: the pain was due to gods will, the pain they suffer now will serve a great reward later, renaissance/classical. Back to emphasis on empiricism: pain due to brain and spinal cord. Pain had a healing function: 18th and 19th century. Surgeons were quick and caused less pain were valued. Still doing surgery without anesthesia but upon its invention the focus would be on procedures and the study of pain declined. Viewed as symptoms not as an independent are of study: current.
