The Experience of Pain

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Note Text: 1062 Albert Schweitzer

To the millions of people in every country who live and die in needless pain.
"We must all die. But if I can save [a person] from days of torture, that is what I feel is my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself."
Albert Schweitzer, 1953

Melzack, R. and Wall, P. D., "The Challenge of Pain (Reprint of 1988 edition)", Penguin Books, 2008

Note Text: 1684 Self-sense and loss of abilities

When a patient develops an inability to recognize familiar faces, or see color, or read, or when patients cease to recognize melodies, or understand speech, or produce speech, the description they offer of the phenomenon, with rare exceptions, is that something is happening to them, something new and unusual which the c....

Damasio, Antonio R., "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", Penguin Books, 1994, 236

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