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As the reverend gentleman stumped to Church he was constantly 

 in pain as if from the corns on his vanished leg, and for years 

 afterwards, as he lay in his bed with his cork leg on a table hard 

 by, he would start with a sudden twinge of pain, as if from his 

 corns. This was by no means a singular case, though a severe 

 one. A little girl who had had an amputation at the forearm 

 said, " My fingers hurt me, nurse, especially the little finger." 

 The explanation of this singular phenomenon lies in the fact 

 that each fibre of sensory nerve comes from a certain part of 

 skin, bone, or tissue, and is the special conductor for that part 

 and no other. After an amputation the continuations of the 

 nerve fibres from the amputated limb are still present, and if 

 irritated send an impulse to the brain, which is registered as if 

 coming from the original part. But this false pain does not 

 continue indefinitely. The nerve fibres coming from the ampu- 

 tated member eventually atrophy, though how soon or how late 

 it is impossible to say. The seat of pain, physical and mental, 

 is the brain, and any part having no longer any connection with 

 that organ is no longer subject to pain. 



Whether or no physical pain is more or less common than 

 it was fifty years ago it would be difficult to say. Mr. Morgan 

 was inclined to take the more hopeful view. But he felt there 

 could be no doubt that mind pain, or j>/trenalfiia, is a far more 

 serious enemy to-day than it was years ago. " It is to-day what 

 biliousness was half a century ago, and is due, like the old 

 biliousness, to reckless living, though in a different form. The 

 hurry and bustle of life, the high speed and pressure, the severe 

 competition which too often demands that the whole of a man's 

 energies shall be sacrificed at the altar of business or professional 

 life, crowded out digestion, sleep, and all such trifles. And then 

 what ? At fifty or sixty a man has money, but no capacity for 

 enjoying it wisely. And then, when the stimulus that came 

 from an over-busy life is suddenly taken away, the brain atro- 

 phies from want of stimulus, and the poor man becomes a prey 

 to phrenalffia. 



