FINDING PAIN WITH PIN
Doctor’s Simple Test A doctor who was asked to discover whether or not a man was telling the truth when he said his hand hurt him applied a very simple test—with n P” 1 - The man bad a scar in the palm of his hand and the question o£ whether he felt paid nt the spot was raised at the Clerkenwelt County Court lately. The doctor described the test he applied. In order to test the man’s word, lie said, lie told him to shut his eyes. Then he pricked his hand in many places with a pin and when he pricked the spot marked by the scar the man jumped. This satisfied the doctor that the man genuinely suffered pain there. De. concluded that a nerve, had become linked up with the sear tissue, which formed after an incision which .was made iu connection with an operation.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 2
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152FINDING PAIN WITH PIN Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 2
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