90 _  * GE Ry Rowell on the 
aioiging this paper to the consideration of the ees 
Ci beg to state distinctly, that I do not pret 
nowisies'of anatomy, but have been led to my col 
what appears to be the effect of injuries wpon different sl 
do not attempt to assign any cause for the difference of the 
ount of pain, w ether it be that the nerves are less sensitive, 
or Meio numerons in some classes than in others, or whether it 
is owing to. the want.of. reflecting. faculties, but only to show that 
there is such a differenee 
_ I do not know se there i is any thing new in the opinions I 
advance ; but as I have Piet 4g than ordinary opportunities of 
i feet of of ounds on some classes of animals, 1 
ape i sub; 
iG 
a 4 nee 
ject 
disc re + atthe use ‘of the icboks of ether has src 
1é ser hae — the consideration of this Society, I 
er Will be in some ; 
importance to man, to guard and warn him from injury. 
1 is very sensitive, the body being thus enveloped i 
brane susceptible of the slightest injury, while the heart, 
brain, and other vital internal parts that are thus g 
almost insensible; but although the lungs are, in 
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gree, insensible of during con the are 
sensible of the np of rhe dice te against the 
nhalation of anything injurious. As the hands, full especially 
the ie aes are whe liable to injury, the sense of pain is gre: 
and I believe there may be more real pin om 3 
ether th Sgt a fm very many th fatal 
' nior coating of 1 | 
ri fatal eases: would arise from eats, & , if x 
warmed by pain and. inconvenience of the Se ( 
constitution of sudden changes of temperature, 
» of the best ways to judge of the 4 of a 
consider how ne do wahout it’ ym 
so in the present case. ‘Thus, if a 
‘in, he might sit’ by aie, sn ih 
oot upon it, and soon «find hk Sted hat. 
eters € thus 
fact, r 
he might have lime blown into his 
if not ma is by the pain ; in 
