expression requires, is very common amongst the deaf and dumb. This
contracted gesture is frequently so shortened as nearly to lose all
semblance of the natural one, but to the deaf and dumb who use it, it
still has the force of the original expression. ]
301 (return) [ See the interesting cases collected by M. G. Pouchet in
the Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1, 1872, p. 79. An instance was
also brought some years ago before the British Association at Belfast.]
302 (return) [ Muller remarks ( Elements of Physiology, Eng. translat.
vol. ii. p. 934) that when the feelings are very intense, all the
spinal nerves become affected to the extent of imperfect paralysis, or
the excitement of trembling of the whole body. ]
303 (return) [ Lecons sur les Prop. des Tissus Vivants, 1866, pp.
457-466.]
304 (return) [ Mr. Bartlett, Notes on the Birth of a Hippopotamus,
Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1871, p. 255.]
305 (return) [ See, on this subject, Claude Bernard, Tissus Vivants,
1866, pp. 316, 337, 358. Virchow expresses himself to almost exactly
the same effect in his essay Ueber das Ruckenmark (Sammlung
wissenschaft. Vortrage, 1871, s. 28).]
306 (return) [ Muller ( Elements of Physiology, Eng. translat. vol.
ii. p. 932) in speaking of the nerves, says, any sudden change of
condition of whatever kind sets the nervous principle into action. See
Virchow and Bernard on the same subject in passages in the two works
referred to in my last foot-note.]
307 (return) [ H. Spencer, Essays, Scientific, Political, &c., Second
Series, 1863, pp. 109, 111.]
308 (return) [ Sir H. Holland, in speaking ( Medical Notes and
Reflexions, 1839, p. 328) of that curious state of body called the
_fidgets_, remarks that it seems due to an accumulation of some cause
of irritation which requires muscular action for its relief. ]
309 (return) [ I am much indebted to Mr. A. H. Garrod for having
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