The Hand Its Mechanism And Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
The Hand Its Mechanism And Vital Endowments As Evincing Design
Charles Bell
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It is a distinct sense, the organ of which is seated in the skin ; and it is neces- sary that this organ of sense should be extended widely over the surface of the body. Yet the nerves are as appropriate and distinct as if they were gathered into one trunk, such as we find them to be in the organs of vision and hearing. Although the portion of nervous matter on which the sensation and perception of touch depend, be necessarily extended in its sentient extremities over the w r hole exterior surf...ace of the body, it is very much concentrated towards the brain : and it is there appropriated, in the same manner as the nerves of vision and of hearing, to its peculiar function of raising cor- responding perceptions in the mind. Perhaps this will be better understood from the fact that a certain large portion of the OF TOUCH. 177 skin may be the seat of excruciating pain, and yet the surface, which to the patient's percep- tion is the seat of that pain, will be altogether insensible to cutting, burning, or any mode of destruction !
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