Besides, have not prominent physiologists stated that the fact of the palm becoming burning hot, in the advanced shape of consumption and in all diseases that arise from organic wasting away through irritation, is sufficient evidence that in the hand exists one of the centers of instinctive life? They have added that, in their opinion, this focus of instinctive life resides in the elevations (or Mounts) under the four fingers, wherein (as well as in the hollow of the hand and at the finger tips) are found, to the numbers of 250 or 300, these Pacinian Corpuscles. which are but agglomerations of nervous matter. These Corpuscles act as condensers of innervation, receiving the vital fluid through the fingers, storing it like reservoirs of electricity and endowing the hand with its surprising sensitiveness, commonly known as the sense of touch. Let me add. to this essential statement concerning the Pacinian Corpuscles, that they do not exist in the monkey's so-called hands and are absent, or very few in number, in the hands of the congenital idiot.
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