 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...brain may be touched, or a portion of i* cut off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance ! From...prevailing that a nerve must necessarily be sensible. AVhereas, when we consider that the different parts of the nervous system have totally distinct endowments,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 pages
...consciousness, is as insensible as the leather of our shoe ! That the brain may be touched, or a portion cut off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence...that he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance ! ' The reason we suppose to be, that the safety of the brain is otherwise provided for by its strong... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 524 pages
...consciousness, is as insensible as the leather of our shoe ! That the brain may be touched, or a portion cut off', without interrupting the patient in the...that he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance ! " The reason he supposes to be, that the safety of the brain is otherwise provided for by its strong... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 pages
...consciousness, is as insensible as the leather of our shoe ! That the brain may be touched, or a portion out off. without interrupting . the patient in the sentence that he is uttering, is a surprisin^ circumstance ! " The reason he supposes to be, that the safety of the brain is otherwise... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 pages
...is as insensible as the leather of our shoe ! That the brain may be touched, or a portion cut oft', without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance ! The reason he supposes to be, that the safety of the brain is otherwise proTided for by its strong... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 296 pages
...brain may be touched, or a portion of it cut off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance ! From...totally distinct endowments, and that there are nerves insensible to touch and incapable of giving pain, though exquisitely alive to their proper office,... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...feel. ' It is as insensible,' says Sir Charles Bell, ' as the leather of our shoe, and a piece may be cut off without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering.' Because the bone which envelopes it is its protection against injuries from without, it has no perception... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...'It is as insensible,' savs Sir Charles Bell, ' as the ' * * leather of our shoe, and a piece may be cut off without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering.' Because the bone which envelopes it is its protection against injuries from without, it has no perception... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...feel. " It is as insensible," says Sir Charles Bell, " as the leather of our shoe, and a piece may be cut off without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering." Because the bone which envelops it is its protection against injuries from without, it has no perception... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...feel. " It is as insensible," says Sir Charles Bell, " as the leather of our shoe, and a piece may be cut off without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering." j Because the bone which envelopes it is its protection against injuries from without, it has no perception... | |
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... admirably it is varied and accommodated to the functions, we shall add one other fact. The brain is insensible — that part of the brain, which if disturbed or diseased, takes away consciousness, is as insensible as the leather of our shoe ! That... 
