Pain is an unpleasant experience, and one that all of us would want to avoid.
THE 17th century French philosopher René Descartes (for the mathematicians among the readers, yes, this is the same Descartes who developed Cartesian geometry) first described a theory on how pain is felt based on a mechanical concept of how the body works.
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