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gular and painful affections termed strangury and tencsmiis. There 

 are also peculiar affections of the system ofvoluntury museles referrible 

 to the šame property. In hydrophobia and tetanus, in each of vvhich 

 the extremities of the sentient nervas have been vvounded, there is a 

 peculiar exaltation of this function : the morbid action appears to 

 be propagated to the spinal marrow ; and then along the motor 

 nerves, producing those dreadful sensations and spasms so fearfully 

 characteristic of these afl'ections. The least external shock or im- 

 pression is terrible ; the immediate muscular contractions are into- 

 lerable. 



