How to Distinguish Pains.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 140, 18 March 1909, Page 3

How to Distinguish Pains.

It is of great importance that we should possess some means of distinguishing between purely nervous pains and those of a graver character. By this last I mean to indicate pain which is present, say, in the case of | inflammation. The nervous pain is not I necessarily in itself an indication of any serious troub'c. It is, as a rule, sharp in its character, and comes and goes. It is not a dull r>ain persisting | for long periods, and, best of all,if the ' temperature of the body be taken it | will be found not to have risen, as cer- ; tainly would be the case where inflam- ; mation is present, owing to the develi opment of a certain amount of fever in the latter case. Again, the nervous pain generally yields more readily to treatment than do pains that indicate the existence of more serious trouble, but the important point for our dsitinction between pain of one kind and pain of another is undoubtedly the fact of | the absence of fever just noted. la. f » *