EXTERNAL ORGAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of External organ

... the hallucination, or are there various possible sorts of causes? Now defects in the eye, or in the optic nerve, to speak roughly, may cause hallucinations from without. An injured external organ conveys a false and distorted message to the brain and to the intelligence. A nascent malady of the ear may produce buzzings, and these may develop into hallucinatory voices. Here be hallucinations from without. But when a patient begins with a hallucination of the intellect, as that ...

— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang

... doubt that external sensibility is inherent in the nervous parts of the external organ, whence he infers that it may readily incite the fibres of such organ ad appetendum et movendum; for, as external sensation is communicated to the brain by means of the nerves, it must of necessity be true, that ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various