 | David Ames Wells - 1863 - 470 pages
...off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence ho is ottering, is a surprising circumstance ! This informs us that sensibility is not a necessary...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. — BELL'S JBridgeteater Treatite. FALSITY OF PHRENOLOGT:. it. 1st. They refer the mere animal propensities... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pages
...brain should be sensible, or exhibit a property of the nerve of the skin. Reason on it as we may, tho fact is so : — the brain, through which every impression...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. — Sir Charles Hell's Bridgewater Treatise. SKIN-DEEP 'WOUNDS. The extreme sensibility of the skin... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 pages
...is so ; the brain, through which every impression must be conveyed before it is perceived, is half insensible. This informs us that sensibility is not...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. — Sir Charles Bell's Bridgewater Treatise. NATURAL ARCHITECTURE. I HAVE seen the colonnade of the... | |
 | 1833 - 798 pages
...it cut off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence that he is uttering! — a feet proving that sensibility is not a necessary attendant on the...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. The eye is protected by a nerve possessing a quality totally different from that of the optic nerve.... | |
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... so that sensibility here would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. " Reason on it, however, as we may, the fact is so; — the brain, through which every impression must be conveyed before it is perceived, is itself insensible.... 
