Abstract
To begin with a subject so difficult I remember the prodigious young Bengali poet, the late Sukanta Bhattacharya who wrote in his famous poem “Perception”:
“Oh! the strange World I salute thee, From the very moment I arrived on your scene I have been showered With the agony of pain and insults.”
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Bagchi, A.K. (1987). Pain and Language. In: Brihaye, J., Loew, F., Pia, H.W. (eds) Pain. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 38. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6975-9_31
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