(1

Huxley or Paget

When a man stands before a fire & his face redden, — does the heat act directly on the nerves or muscles of the capillaries — or do centripetal nerves transmit some effect from the heat on the surface, to the vaso-motor ganglia, & these by reflex action cause the capillaries to dilate? (a)

It is admitted by my physician

When we closely direct our attention to any part, so that we sharpen a sense, feel a pain more acutely in am injured part, feel some general odd uneasiness in an uninjured part, or many think intently about it & are thus rendered conscious of one being for instance a little finger, is it known what takes place? Must not the nerves (what nerves?) running to the sense-organ or little finger be somehow affected?

[1v]

I presume there cd be told by King whether [illeg] wd cause action to [illeg], when sympathetic nerve of a part divided

(a) If this latter contingency be the true one, & the sympathetic nerves of the face were cut before they entered any ganglia, the face would not redden before the fire, or conversely grow pale from cold.

(2)

Secondly: if we think of any part of our body, we become conscious of its existence; & if we think intently on it odd sensations (Sir H. Holland) may then felt they then may be muscular; but its path appear that some direct effect is often & thus locally produced, as in the case of glands & the uterus in the sharpening of the senses &c. (1) (2) Now, & this is my special query when I think intently on the & become conscious of its existence

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In other cases, where glands are not concerned Can it be supposed in that effect as produced by closer attention to that part extending through (1) the vaso-motor ganglia, modifying the capillary circulation of the spot? In the case of glands I infer from Pagets writing that nerve power probably acts directly on (1) the scaly cells, as well as on the capillary circulation.

[13v]

When I think of acid foodsmy salivary glands act. – can this be accounted for solely by an influence from the sensorium proceeding to vaso-motor ganglia which serve to supply these glands. I see Paget is inclined to admit to existence of [illeg] nerve.