“He describes patients in whom loss of sensibility over the surface of the body is accompanied by emotional insensibility.”

“The mental faculties and volition become first impaired, insensibility and unconsciousness rapidly supervene, during which susceptibility to pain is lost.”

“But there is a possible second contrary to continence, insensibility to physical pleasures, and that is exactly what this chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics discusses.”

“Thou, that art the great physician in heaven, first cure our insensibleness.”