SENSITIVENESS OF THE SKIN 



THE time at my disposal has unfortunately not 

 been sufficient to enable me to engage on any 

 very careful tests as to the sensitiveness of Lola's 

 skin. Yet I have made certain preliminary notes as 

 to what I hope to do in this connexion, and have 

 also begun with a few tentative attempts. I first tried 

 her sensibility to various degrees of warmth by teaching 

 her the use of the thermometer. I made a drawing 

 of a thermometer according to its actual size and 

 added principal numbers and figures and also 



at 100, water becomes air = hot. 



at o, water becomes hard cold, 

 and beneath this I wrote : 



from i 100 upwards, it becomes always 

 hotter, 



from o 40 downwards, it becomes always 

 colder, and I concluded with a few more verbal eluci- 

 dations, and then fetched an actual thermometer on 

 which I made her read me the temperature of the room. 

 The next day I repeated this lesson and she read the 

 thermometer again. After this I tested her as to 

 whether she could give the temperature by the " feel," 

 as it were, or whether the impression of the temperature 

 was associated more immediately with a sense of com- 

 fort. She has so far always given the right tempera- 

 ture when asked, though I should add that I have only 



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