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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...body in hot bath). Distribution, different from that of touch: tongue, cheeks, lips, palms and soles. Warmth, acute or mass1ve perception. Cold, in extreme approaches heat as a perception: with exercise, stimulating; without, depressing; reflex effect in rigors. General, unlocalized, but conscious sensations of hunger and thirst, repletion: want of breath, want of sleep:fatigue: want of muscular movement after rest: uneasiness from retained secretions. Uneasiness (malaise) of approaching illness. Sense of position in space. Evidence of its existence. Probably connected with the semicircular canals. Vertigo. Meniere's disease. Constant influx of unconscious and half-conscious sensations upon the central nervous system both awake and asleep, forming a background for all the more acute and definite perceptions. Muscular Sense. Proof of its reality by judging of weights by pressure only and by poising. Its distribution and development independent of touch. Larynx (singing), tongue and lips (articulation), fingers (violin-playing, fec.), arms, ocular muscles, legs, trunk. Pleasures of the muscular sense: pains, as fruitless effort (nightmare) and missed blow or step; the former related to the emotion of despair, the latter to that of disgust. Seat doubtful: organs unknown. Probably a central perception of activity of motor ganglioncells: absent in reflex and other involuntary movements. Intellectual value of the muscular sense: origin of notions of space: Volition. Comb1nat1ons Of Senses..Sight with touch: sight with muscular sense (of recti): sight with touch and muscular sense. Smell with taste. Taste with touch, smell and temperature. Touch with muscular sense ("vernier " action). Pa1n. Not a special perception like the above. A mental condition dep...