

300 DERMOID SYSTEM. 



The reticular body belongs to organic life. The chorion 

 is passive. 



Q. When the animal sensibility of the papilla? is ex- 

 alted in disease, what peculiar symptoms are presented? 



# A smarting, burning pain, known only to the pa- 

 pillae; such is the case with blisters, erysipelas. You have 

 itching, which is a sensation also peculiar to the papillae, 

 as well as the curious sensation from tickling. ISlpne of 

 these sensations are known on the mucous, serous or other 

 tissues. 



Q. Is there any other particular of the papillary animal 

 sensibility worthy of notice? 



*#. That it is much regulated by habit, as you see in 

 the exposure of the skin in some nations; the nakedness 

 of some, and the full dress of others. 



Q. What destroys feeling? 



*ft. Inflammation, paralysis, and other morbid states. 



Q. When animal sensibility is in exercise, is there an 

 erection of the papillae? 



*ft. Observation would answer in the negative. 



Q. Does animal contractility exist in this texture? 



J2. It does not. 



Q. What functions presuppose the activity of organic 

 sensibility and of insensible organic contractility in this 

 texture ? * 



t/#. Exhalation, absorption, the exhalation of the oily 

 matter, the capillary circulation, and the nutrition of the 

 whole dermoid texture; and lastly, the excitement from 

 external bodies. 



Q. How are the diseases of the skin to be divided? 



*#. Into those of the papillae in which animal sensibility 

 is exalted or diminished; the first v in certain acute sensibi- 



