because of the "taboo against [a doctor] touching the body" (86) suffering in the region Duden is studying "had be be verbalized before a medicus could deal with it"
"the imagery of their compliants speaks of a wealth of word-creations for the inner experience of pain, a wealth now lost to us"
(lengthy list of examples on 89-91)
terms for "inner sensations in specific body regions" (i.e. "apoplexy in the arm" or "tearing fluxes in the limbs," though also non-lost things like "neck pains" or "sore throat")
"words to describe conditions that were not specifically localized" ("heat, cold, shuddering, feebleness, sweating, anxiousness, swooning")
"things they could observe, smell, or feel" ("feverish rashes, burning sores, knots in the breast, chapped hands")
and "many words for matter discharged by the body" ("clotted lumps of blood, watery but sharp blood, foul-colored blood, melancholic blood, blood that pulled like twine, black filth, black and slimy blood, water and black diarrhea, bloody excretion, reddish water, a mess of foul phlegm, brown urine with grit in it, a discharage of greenish moisutre, a lump of a skinny thing, a smelly discharge, a nasty and foul-odored discharge," etc.)
157: "The impoverishment of the vocabulary goes hand in hand with the [contemporary] inability to impart a personal meaning to pain through the use of language. The reduction of accepted ways of speaking reflects the cultural reduction of the whole spectrum of meaning to a defined body separated from the self" (see separate note on "The experience of personal body pain, then and now")