The worst of evils : the fight against pain / Thomas Dormandy.

A gift of the gods
The grape and the poppy
Roots, barks, fruit, and leaves
Pain denied
Pain ignored
The heresies
Healing and holiness
Islam
The age of the cathedrals
Pain exalted
Rebirth, rediscovery, and reform
Going to war
Foundations
Heavenly dreams
Animal magnetism
Pneumatic medicine
Laughing gas
The terror of the knife
Hospital disease
To the threshold
A gentleman from the South
"This Yankee dodge"
In Gower Street
And beyond
Chloroform
The shape of dreams
Mr. Anaesthetist
Conflicting views
The rights of pain
Who needs an anaesthetic?
The new physiology
The new pathology
The acute abdomen
Old drugs, new drugs
The bark of the willow
Cocaine
High Victorian pain
The power of pain control
Seminal years
The gift of St. Barbara
Tic douloureux
Twilight sleep
Dolorism
Renoir
Pills and poisons
The surgery of pain
The schism
Pain mechanisms
Pain clinics
Hospice.