PAIN Receptors PRESENT IN THE SKIN
It was thought that the sense of feeling and pain was only dependent on the brain. Recent discoveries prove that there are pain receptors present in the skin without which a person would not be able to feel pain. When a doctor examines a patient suffering from burn injuries, he verifies the degree of burns by a pinprick. If the tolerant feels pain, the doctor is happy, because it indicates that the burns are outward and the pain receptors are intact. On the other hand if the patient does not feel any pain, it indicates that it is a deep burn and the pain receptors have been destroyed. The QURAN gives an indication of the survival of pain receptors in the following verse:“Those who reject Our signs, We shall soon cast into the fire; As often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.” [Al-QURAN 4:56]
Prof. Tagatat Tejasen, Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at
