A physical essay on the senses / Translated from the French.

  • Claude-Nicolas Le Cat
Date:
1750
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Credit: A physical essay on the senses / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tickling^ tions and Agitations, more violent, than what ufually refult from Pleafure : and, on that ac¬ count, this Irritation approaches very near to the Attacks that excite Pain. The lively Irritation that caufes Tickling, proceeds, Arif, from a Sort of Imprefiion made by the Objecl, as when the Lips are lightly ftroked with a Feather : fecondly, from the Difpolition of the Organ extremely fenlible, namely, the nervous Papillae of the Skin, being very numerous, very fufceptible of Irritation, and furnilhed with abundance of Spirits. For thia Reafon, Bodies of a moft fenfible and moft lively Temperament, and the Parts that are belt fupplied with Nerves, are alone fubje&ed to being tickled. I he Organ may moreover be endued with a Sen Ability, as it is neceffary it fhould be in order to produce a Tickling, by a Difpolition inclining a little to an Inflammation. T o this Caufe thofe Itchings mult be afcribed, wheie a light Scratching is the Source of fo great a Pleafure. But this Pleafure, like Tickling, borders very much on Pain. ° Imagina- Bell des thefe Difpofitions of the Object, and du&ive of°^ ^ie Organ, Imagination has likewife a great the Senfe of Share in this Senfation of Tickling, as well as in Tickling. aj] other Senfations. If any one touches us in the moft infenfible Places with a profeflfed Intention to tickle us, we cannot bear it. On the contrary, if the Hand be applied to our Skin indifferently, without that feeming
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