Medical Cases
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Snikewin, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Soldiers Who Didn’t Want Morphine
In 1944, badly wounded soldiers at Anzio told their doctor they didn’t need morphine. Years later, a little girl invented a way to divide her pain until it disappeared. Both reveal how much…
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A Feeling of Hypnosis Coming Gently Over You
Jane Cameron didn’t live near Phoenix, and she couldn’t just drop by Erickson’s office when the pain flared. She was one of the many people who wrote to him from a distance, describing…
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The Doctor Who Put His Patients to Sleep for Weeks
In 1880s Stockholm, Dr Otto Wetterstrand kept some patients in hypnotic sleep for up to four weeks. A century later, a far darker version of his idea surfaced in a Sydney hospital.
