Note 240 — Chapter II · DEDUCTIONS FROM GENERAL LAWS.

See Duchenne, De Électrisation localisée, p. 398. Griesinger cites various examples of insane patients who have burned the flesh off their bones while manifesting a total indifference to these injuries. Maladies Mentales, p. 94. Falret says, “Nous avons vu plusieurs fois des aliénés s’inciser, s’amputer eux-mêmes diverses parties du corps sans paraître ressentir aucune souffrance.” Leçons cliniques de Médicine Mentale, 1854, I. 189. Patients incapable of feeling the contact of a hot iron with their skin have felt subjective burnings in the skin thus objectively insensible.