CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Valerius Cordus, Emily Dickinson, Thomas De Quincey

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Joe Schwarcz

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Small amount of people do not experience pain : congenital analgesia feel touch but not always temperature. Quote by emily dickinson: acute pain : results from injury, inflammation or disease confined by time, chronic pain : persists, representing the disease itself. 1/5 persons suffer from chronic pain persons > 65 years: measuring pain. Pain is what the person says it is. The more the pain, the longer the time to recover. Pai(cid:374) as a disease : spi(cid:374)al (cid:272)ord (cid:862)rewires(cid:863) itself whe(cid:374) there is pai(cid:374) (cid:894)pai(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e permanent) Hospital establish 10 point pain scale: maximize pain relief. Lebenswecker : redirect the pain and people felt better. Classic drug for pain : morphine (best pain relief existing) Morphine comes from the gods morpheus and hypnos : brother gods of dreams and sleep. Hypnos and his half brother thanatos : sleep and death: morphine. Is the main ingredient in opium (a narcotic) Thomas dequincey : confessions of an opium eater (1822)