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gular and painful affections termed strangury and tenesmus. There 

 are also peculiar affections of the system of voluntary muscles referrible 

 to the same property. In hydrophobia and tetanus, in each of which 

 the extremities of the sentient nerves have been wounded, 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 affections. The least external shock or im- 

 pression is terrible ; the immediate muscular contractions are into- 

 lerable. 



