Day 17: I know Ive shared this before, but I feel its worth sharing again. RSD was first documented during the Civil War by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell. In his book, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves, he documents this new disease hes discovered in wounded soldiers. It says, The temper changes and grows irritable, and the face becomes anxious, and has a look of weariness and suffering. The sleep is restless, and the constitutional condition, reacting on the wounded limb, exasperates the hyperestic state so that the rattling of a newspaper, a breath of air, the step of another across the ward, the vibrations caused by a military band, or the shock of the feet in walking, gives rise to an increase of pain. Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize the influence which long continued and unendurable pain may have on both the body and mind. Under such torments the temper changes, the most amiable become irritable, the bravest soldier becomes a coward, and the strongest man is scarcely less nervous than the most hysterical girl.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:25:17 +0000
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