Title: Ingenious pain
First published: 1997
Description: An 18th Century English surgeon is born immune to pain, making him oblivious to the suffering of others. This accounts for his professional success which attracts the attention of the Empress of Russia. On the way to treat her, he runs into a witch who gives him the sensation of pain. That sends him mad but he recovers, emerging from the asylum with the knowledge that without pain one is not really human.
Subjects: Fiction, Surgeons, Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction
Places: Bath (England), England, Bath
LC classification: PR6063.I3564 I5 1997