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Science 31 July 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3370, pp. 267 - 268
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3370.267
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Generalization from Pain of Various Types and Diverse Origins

HENRY K. BEECHER 1

1 Anesthesia Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Pain that arises from very different pathological origins responds in a quantitative fashion to a given dose of a given narcotic, but this is not true when the pain has been contrived by experimental means, in man, with customary techniques.


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