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Dr. Reclam Karl Heinrich Reclam (1821–1887), a prominent physician and popularizer of science who was skeptical of Reichenbach's theories. may call this charlatanry original: "Charlatanerie", but he is unjustified because he has not investigated it; it is nonetheless a proven fact that has occurred before my eyes often enough. — Why do certain people feel their hand warmed by one end of a crystal, and chilled by the other? According to our current knowledge, there is nothing present at these ends that could provide any cause for such a sensation, let alone two different ones, and yet it is so; a hundredfold experience proves it. — All these nerve excitations and a thousand similar ones, which I have sought out and proven inductively according to the "modern method of natural research," Mr. Vogt Carl Vogt (1817–1895), a materialist philosopher and scientist who famously clashed with Reichenbach. is incapable of explaining through merely increased general irritability. Such general irritability can only change the quantity original: "Quantum", but not the quality original: "Quale" of a sensation: it is a specific, a peculiar irritability. In concrete cases, a general irritability may accompany it, particularly in sick sensitives term: "Sensitiven" - individuals Reichenbach believed were capable of perceiving the Odic force., but it does not necessarily accompany it and, in many cases, clearly does not, as is the case with most healthy sensitives, understanding the expression "healthy" in the ordinary sense.

This, however, is precisely the point around which Mr. Vogt's groundless objections revolve. He wishes to explain the odic phenomena in the human body—which he does not deny because he cannot deny them—solely as a result of a generally increased nervous excitation, thereby pulling the rug out from under sensitivity term: "Sensitivität" - the inherent faculty of perceiving Odic light and heat., while a specific irritability actually lies at their foundation. The generally increased nervous irritability is not disputed; rather, it has been demonstrated by my own experiments. But coordinated with it is a specific irritability throughout the entire nervous system, which is what is relevant here. With his pretended explanation, he does not suffice for even the slightest odic phenomenon, nor has he dared to touch or explain any of the facts presented by me and thereby attempt a refutation of my arguments; nothing remains for him but to submit to them, and whatever evasion he may seize upon this false path in the future, I shall demonstrate its untenability to him.

How little he has penetrated into the internal conditions of these things

* Prosch, Medical-Surgical Encyclopedia, Article: Electric Cures. Page 563.