As another indication of the exaltation of the special senses, it may be mentioned that the sensation of touch is made painfully acute, and the slightest contact of a foreign body at once produces convulsions more or less powerful. The effort to raise the eyelid has produced a spasmodic action, which seemed to run through the whole system with electric rapidity. These facts, however, only show that while the powerful manifestations of its peculiar actions are shown in the derangement of the functions of the spinal column.

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