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HOW DIGFERENT PEOPLE ENDURE PAIN.

* I " Women endure painful surgical ; operations much better than do men," , said a medical taaveller. f Men will i receive frightful wounds without flinching, then act like babies at the sight of ; the surgeon's knife and needle. As a i rule the most robust nations bear pain • with less fortitude than those noted for effeminacy. A native of Bengal will look placidly on while you saw off his leg, while your bold Briton must have an opiate before getting a tooth pulled. The Mexicans and Cubans endure pain much better than do the Americans, while a Turk will let a surgeon saw him to pieces without raising half the disturbance that a big German soldier will over the setting of a broken bone. But for a genuine stoic in the matter of long-suffering, commend me to an Indian who has not been tainted with the white man's civilisation. There is no torture human ingenuity can devise that will break his nerve.

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Mataura Ensign, Issue 717, 29 March 1900, Page 3

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HOW DIGFERENT PEOPLE ENDURE PAIN. Mataura Ensign, Issue 717, 29 March 1900, Page 3

HOW DIGFERENT PEOPLE ENDURE PAIN. Mataura Ensign, Issue 717, 29 March 1900, Page 3