CAS PS 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fluid Ounce, Chronic Pain, Atropa Belladonna
15 Mar 2020
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Discuss the prevalence, cost, definition and purpose of pain. Explain the primary approaches to measuring pain. Identify the physiological processes related to pain transduction, transmission, perception and modulation. Describe the specificity and gate control theories of pain. Early humans related pain to evil, magic and demons. Relief of pain: responsibility of sorcerers, shamans, priests and priestesses, who used herbs, rites and ceremonies as their treatments. Most pain relievers made from plants: opium derived from the poppy flower, also alcohol or wine, mandrake, belladonna and marijuana. Touted as cure for rheumatism, sprains, bruises, lame back, frost bites, diarrhea, burns and scalds. Contents: 50-70% alcohol, camphor, ammonia, chloroform, sassafras, cloves and turpentine. Wizard oil could also be used on horses and cattle. Mrs windlsow"s soothing syrup: was an indispensable aid to mothers and child-care workers. Containing one grain (65gmg) of morphine per fluid ounce, it effectively quieted restless infants and small children. Headache treatment: likely included ethyl alcohol and opium.
