Pain : its origin, conduction, perception and diagnostic significance / by Richard J. Behan. With one hundred and ninety-one illustrations in the text and many diagnostic charts.

  • Behan, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1879-
Date:
1914
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Credit: Pain : its origin, conduction, perception and diagnostic significance / by Richard J. Behan. With one hundred and ninety-one illustrations in the text and many diagnostic charts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF SENSATION PAGE Sensation in Lower Animals ....... 1 Reaction of Animals to Pain ....... 3 General Consideration op Sensation ..... 4 Properties of Sensation ........ 6 Centers for Sensory Perception and the Sense Organs . . 7 Sense Perceptive Organs . . . . . . . .11 Stimuli . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Interpretation of Sensation ....,,, 12 CHAPTER II THE NATURE OF PAIN Definition ....... Metaphysical Consideration of Pain Memory Centers for Pain .... Causative Factors in the Production of Pain . Apparatus for Receiving and Conducting Pain Pain and Mental States ..... Relation of Pain to Other Sensations Conveying Channels for Sensations 18 20 24 25 28 30 31 35 CHAPTER III DISTRIBUTION OF THE SENSATION OF PAIN Distribution of the Sensation of Pain .... 46 CHAPTER IV PERCEPTION OF PAIN SENSATION Analgesia . . . . . . . . . . .61 Anesthesia .......... 63 Hyperalgesia .......... 67 is.