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[[File:Paul_flechsig_perscheid_1906.jpg|thumb|Flechsig in 1906]]
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1847-06-29|birthplace=Zwickau|birthcountry=Kingdom of Saxony|death=1929-07-22|deathplace=Leipzig|deathcountry=Germany}}) was an eminent nineteenth-century German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist, and neuropathologist.
Professor Flechsig had an interest in myelinogenesis — the development of the myelin sheaths for nerves.<ref name="myelogenesis2024">{{REFweb
|trans-title=The pathways in the human brain and spinal cord based on developmental studies
|language=German
|url=https://ia903406.us.archive.org/9/items/bub_gb_0UxvjrYgAJQC/bub_gb_0UxvjrYgAJQC.pdf
|location=Leipzig
|ISBNaccessdate=2024-01-12 |accessdateformat=PDF
}}</ref> Unfortunately, he came to the unfounded conclusion that the newborn cannot feel [[pain]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Cope
|date=1998-09
|accessdate=2024-01-06
}}</ref> So great was his reputation and influence that his views were accepted without question, even though empirical studies had not been carried out. Surgical As a result, surgical operations were have been carried out on infants without pain medicationfor more than 100 years.
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==Conclusion==
Flechsig's error condemned millions of infant girls and boys undergoing surgery to acute [[pain]], [[trauma]], and [[shock]] for more than over a century and that practice is still ongoing today. Open For example, open heart surgery on infants was done without anesthesia until 1987.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.newsweek.com/when-doctors-start-using-anesthesia-babies-medics-thought-they-couldnt-feel-pain-1625350
|title=When Did Doctors Start Using Anesthesia on Babies? Medics Thought They Couldn't Feel Pain
|pubmedID=3627897
|accessdate=2024-01-07
}}</ref> Boys may have suffered more than girls because of the practice of non-therapeutic neonatal [[circumcision]], including the after effects of [[PTSD]] and behavior changes.<ref>{{TaddioA KatzJ IlersichAL KorenG 1997}}</ref> and [[PTSD]].
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