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Dysmenorrhoea: The Oldest Theories and the Newest Treatment
Author(s) -
Can D. J.
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1937.tb14637.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , face (sociological concept) , task (project management) , metaphysics , alternative medicine , medicine , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , sociology , computer science , social science , management , pathology , library science , economics
Pain is the most important of complaints and the commonest and most clamant symptom with which the physician has to deal. It drives the patient to his doctor, whose most urgent task is often its relief, while the search for its cause provides some of the most difficult problems he has to face on the clinical side. Volumes have been written about it. There is hardly a single number of the recent issue of the journal of the American Medical Association in which there is not a reference to some aspect of the subject. Interest in pain is not confined t o the medical world. Philosophers have pondered over it, and the problem of pain has raised issues of deep significance in metaphysics and theology.–Waterson. 1