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Pain is Mental

From the August 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Scientific American


Again , every surgeon sees convincing proof in his daily experience, that the sensitiveness of his various patients varies so widely, that there must be some cause for it beyond that which is physical. There is no such wide diversity in the nerve-tissue of their system as can account for the extreme differences with which they not only manifest pain, but with which they doubtless feel it.