Ancient greeks Quote by James Henry Breasted

“Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations…

— James Henry Breasted

“The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence”

— Lee Smith

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation…

— Ivan Pavlov

“As someone whose days were defined by the ten thousand ways a human can hurt, she needed, now and then, to remember that the…

— Anthony Marra

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the whole more…

— David Mitchell

“In fact, pain was really not a vital sign, after all, for unlike the four real vital signs it cannot be measured objectively and…

— Sam Quinones

“Cartesian dualism gave medicine permission to see and to treat the body as manipulable matter, as res extensa,”

— Allen Verhey

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

“I knew from years of experience that pain is a blunt and nonspecific diagnostic instrument.”

— John Green

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

— Karl Kraus