H. Verger. Des troubles de la sensibilité dans les hémiplégies organiques d’origine cérébrale. — Archives cliniques de Bordeaux. 1897. № 10

The different types of sensitivity of the author of the refereed article are divided into simple and complex ones. To simple he refers to tactile, painful thermal and muscular feeling. He distinguishes between complex types of sensitivity: 1) The ability to localize the point of touch to the skin. 2) The ability to actively touch, which is composed of muscular feelings and feelings of touch and makes it possible to determine the object with the help of hands. 3) Sense of movement; its composition includes many different sensations, which during the movement of the penis are obtained from the skin, muscles, tendons, bag ligaments, and so on. Here you can distinguish: consciousness of active movements, consciousness of passive movements, determination of the position of a member in space and a sense of weight. 4) Consciousness of the existence of a member; it is composed of various feelings associated with this member. Having cited the histories of the illness of six patients with clinical diagnosis of organic craniocerebral hymiplegia, the author made the following conclusions.