This phenomenon, which resembles the insensitive patches that under the name of 'Devil's claws' were found upon witches when witchcraft was fashionable, has been long known as a sign of hysteria.
In some cases of hysteria the patient presents a weak or paralysed limb, and this limb is often soinsensitive that pins may be pushed through the skin without any manifestations of pain.
In brief, restlessness and the desire of superiority have produced a strange result, and there is little doubt that the vulgar American is insensitive to moral shocks.
They are ill-printed, over-illustrated sheets, whose end and aim are to inflame a jaded or insensitive palate.
Even such great men and such good Confucianists as His Excellency the late Chang-Chih-Tung are not insensitive to such a superstition.
The head and tongue were tremulous, the knee-jerks exaggerated, the soles insensitive to touch and pain; but sensibility to deep pressure was retained.
He was picked up unable to move his legs and insensitive therein.
In modern watch-making the most durable materials are used, magnetic perturbations are avoided by employing alloys insensitive to magnetism, and the effects of fluctuating temperatures are withstood by Earnshaw’s compensated balance wheel.
It shook her more than she gave sign of, for she was not by any means an insensitive woman--shook her almost to the point of feeling that there was something in the remonstrance of those dreadful young people.
From this it necessarily follows that the soul which is insensitive to pain and pleasure and to malice and love is a soul in whom the profound opposite of love has already won a relative victory.
When malice displays itself in an intense and vivid activity of destruction it is less "evil" and less purely "malignant" than when it remains insensitive and inert.
The true opposite to the sort of "love" I have in my mind is not so much "hate" as a kind of dull and insensitive hostility, a kind of brutal malignity and callous aversion.
The dull, thick, insensitive callousness which we are conscious of in the opposite of love is an indication that while love is essentially creative the opposite of love is essentially that which resists creation.
Vogel's new process was not only no better in any respect, but the plates were insensitive to scarlet and ruby-red, and therefore would not photograph all colors in the true proportion of their brightness.
The before mentioned treatment raises it up for a moment, but, before the bridge can be balanced and the resistance measured, it again drops into the low or insensitive state.
Occasionally a cell will persist in remaining in the insensitive state.
Vogel advanced the theory that silver-bromide is insensitive to yellow and red, because it reflects or transmits those colors; and that it becomes sensitive when stained, because of the optical properties of the dyes.
A person familiar with the masterpieces of Europe, but insensitive to that which makes them masterpieces, will be utterly non-plussed by a novel manifestation of the mysterious "that.
The only respects in which one work can be seen to differ from another by an ordinarily insensitive person (e.
It may be divided into three parts, the insensitive and sensitive structures and the bony core.
The insensitive foot or hoof is divided into wall, sole, frog and bars.
Among men few are quite insensitive to the physical pleasures of love, while, on the other hand, few are thrown by the violence of its emotional manifestations into a state of syncope or convulsions.
I am not going to let myself call Byron a blackguard because of something a little hard and insensitive in him which happens to get upon my own nerves.
Though Nigel was enthusiastic and determined, he was not insensitive to what was passing in the mind of one he admired and liked.
Although he was not an insensitive man, he was a man of generous nature.
Subsequently the eye should be bandaged for a few hours until the effect of the cocaine has passed off, as in wiping the eye the patient may wipe off the epithelium of the cornea whilst it is insensitive from the cocaine.
The ear is renderedinsensitive by means of cocaine or Gray’s solution (see p.
The ear is cleansed and dried, and the part rendered insensitive by the previous application of a pledget of cotton-wool soaked in cocaine solution.
Many operations can be carried out by rendering the nasal mucosa absolutely insensitive with cocaine.
All of these artists produce flat work, with the possible exception of Van Rysselberghe who has merely superposed this technique on an obvious and insensitive academism.
I have come to be, I am afraid, even a little insensitive to fine immediate things through this anticipatory habit.
But it seemedinsensitive to his touch, as there was no perceptible shrinking from it.
The part attacked becomes white and bleached-looking, feels icy cold, and is insensitive to touch.
The first evidence is that the fingers become cold, white, and insensitive to touch and pain.
The parts insensitive to light touch and to intermediate degrees of heat and cold are enclosed within the dotted line.
As the parts are insensitive an anæsthetic is not required.
The epidermis and papillæ are destroyed in patches, leaving hard, dry, and insensitive sloughs of a yellow or black colour.
Patients in this condition are peculiarly insensitive to pain, and may even walk about with a fractured leg without apparent discomfort.
The parts insensitive to light touch and to intermediate degrees of temperature are enclosed within the dotted line.
In the early part of the Daguerreotype period it was so insensitive there was very little prospect of being able to take portraits with it through a lens.
It is true that Talbot says of the iodide of silver that it is quite insensitive to light, and so it is as he makes it; but when he reduces it to the condition described by Davy--viz.
It is clear that to be effective, capable of carrying guns and comparatively insensitive to perforation by shot and shell, these things will have to be very much larger and as costly, perhaps, as a first-class cruiser.
And under the force of this tradition we idealise the rugged and unmanageable, we find something heroic in rough clothes and hands, in bad manners, insensitive behaviour, and unsociableness.
An insensitive person will daub with a camel's hair-brush and ultramarine; and a passionate one will paint with mortar and a trowel.
In time when the cause remains active, this discoloration is evident in the substance of the insensitive sole and consists in a red or yellowish spot which varies in size--this is ordinarily termed dry corn.
If necessary, all of the insensitive frog is removed, and in wounds affecting the region of the heel the tissues may be incised from the puncture outward dividing all of the tissues outward and backward to the surface.
Being almost completely encased by a somewhat inexpansible andinsensitive wall and sole, renders the foot subject to pathologic changes peculiar to itself.
A grain of sand, lodging in an insensitive eye, may cause inflammation and even the loss of sight.
The surface is at all times kept in a moist condition by an abundant flow of nasal mucus; otherwise it would become dry, hard, and insensitive from the continual passage of air to and fro in breathing.
The blind spot does not practically interfere with vision, since the eye is seldom fixed immovably on an object, and the insensitive parts of the two eyes can never be directed upon the same object at the same time.
It has been found that the finger will even indicate exactly the number of times that the apparently insensitivelimb has been wounded.
He had always been a little insensitive to those graces of style, in action if not in art, which appeal so strongly to the commoner sort of English mind; he played first for safety, and that assured, for the uttermost advantage.
He's her owner, her keeper, her obstinateinsensitive little tyrant.
