Whereas the control subjects performed perfectly, the patient presented a substantial gain lag that is compensated by almost periodical catch-up saccades in order to bring the eye back onto the target, considerably indicating an impaired precerebellar pontine circuit.

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Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.