“PAIN” A PUZZLE

Evening Star, Issue 21835, 26 September 1934, Page 9

“PAIN” A PUZZLE

ONE MAN'S PASTIME SURPRISE FOR DENTIST. BOURNEMOUTH, July 28. <• Pain ” was a puzzle the British Medical Association conference simply gave up to-day. ~ . Rijn had its uses, they said, I’or instance, it gave an unmistakable message to Tommy that green apples were unwelcome to his inside, and if he had stolon them it had the additional value of conjuring up in his mind the vision of an outraged Deity. But, apart from these beneficent activities, all they could think of about pain wore a lew astonishing stoiios showing that some people never feci it. There was one about a little weedy, miserable, undersized man who went to a dentist to have all his teeth out and refused an anresthetic. The dentist pulled out one tooth and had a look at the victim. He grinned —actually grinned. He pulled out some "more; the man purred with pleasure. Then ho removed the lot, and tlio patient said ho had rarely spent such a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. And have you heard this one? In the course, of an argument A trod on a, finger of B so heavily that he nearly severed it from the hand. Did B howl with pain? He did not. But his linger, hanging about useless, so annoyed him that ho bit it oil! And even when he was dying B merely complained of a little discomfort !