CHEM 183 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Collins Warren, Mohammed Omar, Crawford Long

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

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David noble harpp: remarks about pain, relief of pain anesthetics, pain research. Congenital analgesia: condition in which people do not experience pain. Can feel touch but not always temperature. Can be very dangerous e. g. not feeling hand burn while cooking. Francis thompson 1859-1907: nothing begins, and nothing ends that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other"s pain, and perish in our own. Men suffer more from back pains and women more from head pains. 1 5 people suffer from chronic pain: always present. People over 65 years old suffer from chronic pain. There is no device to measure pain; it is what the person says it is. The more pain there is, the longer it takes to recover. There are two types of pain: acute pain: results from disease, inflammation or injury; confined by time, chronic pain: persists; representing the disease itself. The spinal cord rewires itself when there is pain, pain can become.