Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 83: January-June, 1858 Although it is evident that the encral state of the system must be elt, and to it we owe those daily variations in comfort which we ex press in the terms vigour, glad ness, lassitude, depression, &c., physiologists have not assigned a name to such sensations. The time will come when it will be found necessary to distinguish the Sys temic Sensations (or those arising in the system in general), from the Organic Sensations (or those arising in the separate organs), as these latter are distinguished from those of the five Special Senses of Hearing, Sight, &c. In a popular ex osition, such as I am now em loye on, the current terms must e accepted; and although, therefore, strict ao curacy would lead us to say that Hunger, as a Systemic Sensation; is caused by want of food to repair the waste of tissue, and as an Organic Sensation, it is caused by a specific condition of the stomach; yet, fol lowing popular language, we must say that Hunger is a sensation having its seat in the stomach and all the arguments or experiments which attempt to prove that its seat must be elsewhere, have reference to the general state of the system, but not to the specific sensation known to us as Hunger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.