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The Sense Of Touch

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The extreme delicukcy to which the sense of touch may be Ibrought by practice often receives cusieus illustrations. One of the best known is the ability of th blind to read raised letters ; and in one oase where the ense of touch by the pulp of the fingershad been much reduced by an injury, the aufferer learned to reacfcby applying her lips to the letters. It is said that in ounting rapidly a roll ofS bank notes, a.clerk in the bank of Eoglánd will be able to dctect a counterfeit note by. the touch lone, whieh on examination by an oi dinary individual coulddistinguish from a genuino note even were he a ware that was forged.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus