Alcmene struggled in pain, cursed the heavens, and became close to death.

Apollo's cursed gift to Cassandra became a source of endless pain and frustration to her.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

In its aftermath Lewis became addicted to the pain killer Percodan for some thirteen years.

His health was problematic and in 1812 his pain became so unbearable that he was taken to Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Kentucky, who operated to remove urinary stones.

In her later years, Riefenstahl became known for her longevity and physical stamina, although she often suffered considerable pain from old injuries.

As Woodfull bent down over his bat in pain for several minutes, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series, the huge crowd began jeering, hooting and verbally abusing the English team.

According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.

After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse.

This led to a lengthy recovery process ( during which he nearly became addicted to pain medications ) after which, complete with a permanent disability and wearing a back brace, he left the Marine Corps.

President Harding became exhausted while playing golf at the Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club, and complained of nausea and upper abdominal pain.

Consequently, laudanum became mostly obsolete as an analgesic, since its principal ingredient is morphine, which can be prescribed by itself to treat pain.

Up until the techniques of anesthesia became established, surgeries involving healthy tissues involved great pain.

Applying thick wraps to both of his knees became a pre-game ritual, and by the end of his career, simply swinging a bat caused him to fall to one knee in pain.

Lorre became trapped between the constant pain and addiction to morphine to ease the problem.

In January 1959, he returned to work, but with more pain and declining health underwent abdominal surgery in February at Walter Reed Hospital when recurrence of the cancer became evident.

Alcmene struggled in pain, cursed the heavens, and became close to death.

Fox found that after about 20 minutes of each run, he crossed a pain threshold and the run became easier.

By 1675, Hale had begun to suffer from ill-health ; his arms became swollen, and although a course of bloodletting relieved the pain temporarily, by the next February his legs were so stiff he could not walk.

He patiently but relentlessly stalked and closed in on the other fighter, ignoring whatever punishment he took for the chance to dish out his own at close range, particularly in the form of a crunching body attack that would either wear down his opponents until they collapsed in pain and exhaustion, or became too tired to defend as Chávez shifted his attack to the head and went for a knockout.

Flogging was a common disciplinary measure in the British navy that became associated with a seaman's manly disregard for pain.

After his car accident his addiction included pain killers and became serious.

Desperate to prevent Deacon exposing his family to pain and scandal, Will tied him up in the bell-chamber, planning to bribe him to leave, but became helpless with Spanish influenza next day.

After multiple Reiki sessions from Hayashi's trainees at his clinic for illnesses including abdominal pain and asthma, Hayashi initiated and trained Takata to use Reiki, and she became a Reiki Master on 21 February 1938.

Jeremy Bentham, who is regarded as the founder of utilitarianism, argues that animals can experience pleasure and pain, thus demanding that ' non-human animals ' should be a serious object of moral concern.

The God-like quality ascribed to Jesus explains why he had a greater capacity to suffer more than mortal man could suffer ; thus he could endure the anguish and incomprehensible pain of the atonement.

* Canon 22: Before prescribing for the sick, physicians shall be bound under pain of exclusion from the Church, to exhort their patients to call in a priest, and thus provide for their spiritual welfare.

In contrast, amour-propre is artificial and encourages man to compare himself to others, thus creating unwarranted fear and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness of others.

Methadone, with its long half-life ( and thus long duration of effect ) and good oral bioavailability, is a common second-choice drug for pain that does not respond to weaker agonists.

Pope Pius XII often reconsidered previously accepted truth, thus he was first to determine that the use of pain medicine in terminally ill patients is justified, even if this may shorten the life of the patient, as long as life shortening is not the objective itself.

However, like infants ( Latin infans meaning " unable to speak "), non-human animals cannot answer questions about whether they feel pain ; thus the defining criterion for pain in humans cannot be applied to them.

He described his pain thus: " When you see the jailer you abjectly touch the ground with your forehead.

" Vladimir's pain is primarily mental anguish, which would thus account for his voluntary exchange of his hat for Lucky's, thus signifying Vladimir's symbolic desire for another person's thoughts.

Prompt surgery may, nonetheless, be required with persons with only one working kidney, bilateral obstructing stones, a urinary tract infection and thus, it is presumed, an infected kidney, or intractable pain.

For example, torturing animals may be banned not because animals have rights, but because taking pleasure in the infliction of pain is viewed as a serious social problem, and thus should be suppressed.

Without runner's high to negate the pain caused by running on bones with these conditions, early humans theoretically would not have been able to repeatedly cover these vast distances in search of their food and thus would have starved.

Taken to extremes the empiricist view holds that all ideas come to us through experience, either through the external senses or through such inner sensations as pain and gratification, and thus that knowledge is essentially based on or derived from experience.

The nobleness of life / Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’ t-in which I bind / On pain of punishment the world to weet / We stand up peerless .” Cleopatra immediately says, “ Excellent falsehood !” in an aside, indicating to the audience that she intends for Antony to adopt this rhetoric.

It was always mentioned that his pain tolerance is lower than Frank's and thus, he's unable to steer the needles as well as Frank during a Backstep.

Continuous deep palpation starting from the left iliac fossa upwards ( counterclockwise along the colon ) may cause pain in the right iliac fossa, by pushing bowel contents towards the ileocaecal valve and thus increasing pressure around the appendix.

Nietzsche describes the morality of the ascetic priest as characterized by Christianity as one where, finding oneself in pain or despair and desiring to perish from it, the will to live causes one to place oneself in a state of hibernation and denial of the material world in order to minimize that pain and thus preserve life, a technique which Nietzsche locates at the very origin of secular science as well as of religion.

The typical patch will take effect under normal circumstances usually within 8 – 12 hours, thus fentanyl patches are often prescribed with another opiate ( such as morphine or oxycodone ) to handle breakthrough pain.

Traditionally is said that " If the light is white, it implies a soul in pain and is recommended to say a prayer, but if the light is red, the witness must flee immediately, thus the phenomenon represents the temptation of Satan .."

However, a confused patient may not be delirious ( an example would be a stable, demented person who is disoriented to time and place ), and a delirious person may not be confused ( for example, a person in severe pain may not be able to focus attention because of the pain, and thus be by definition delirious, but may be completely oriented and not at all confused ).