Letters to Editor
nature 19, 554-554 (17 April 1879) | doi:10.1038/019554c0
Sense of Force and Sense of Temperature
J. T. B.
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THE sense of force, or of resistance to pressure, and the sense of temperature, have been very commonly confounded under one name, “sense of touch”. Indeed, I think they are still imperfectly distinguished in many modern works dealing with the subject of sensation. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt as to these two being sensations altogether distinct. It is even quite probable that they are observed and transmitted by distinct nerve-systems.
