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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 245, 7 June 1932, Page 8

ity might have been expected. "You may be at once aware of any thing you are touching at the first contact," said the lecturer, "but if the contact is steadily maintained without movement, the sensation disappears " Touch, and the feel of pressure, heat, and cold that it gave rise to were subject to the influence of different sensations that affected one another. "It was no warmer in the bathroom than it was before you stepped out of a cold bath," said Mr. Morrison, "but it feels warmer by contrast with the temperature of the water. It is an experience that most of you must have had when you put your hand under a tap that was running very cold water, and thought for an instant that it was boiling hot — or the other way round." Touch spots and pain spots were scattered all over the body, some parts being more sensitive than others. There was an area on the inside of the cheek that had no pain sensation in it. The tips of the fingers were crowded with the nerve-endings of touch, and therefore they were most sensitive to such impressions. Besides the five senses there were other motor, or" kinaesthetic, sensations that could not be classed as one of the five senses. Also there were internal sensations, such as that which enabled one to feel the "closeness" of a room by means of the respiratory apparatus. There was the dryness of the throat betokening thirst, and so on.