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Intermittent Sensations

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IN a short notice in NATURE of May 23 (p. 86), calling attention to the intermittence of the intensity of some sensations, and more particularly to the experience of M. Couetoux as reported in the Revue Scientifique, the writer very properly remarks, that these sensorial fluctuations deserve more thorough study. It may interest him, therefore, to learn that the interrupted sensibility of the retina can be easily demonstrated, to anyone possessed of binocular vision.

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REID, T. Intermittent Sensations. Nature 40, 318 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040318b0

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