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Insolenter conditio ex hyperaesthesia murorum vaginalium inducitur.

The result was a condition of hyperaesthesia.

We—that is the ones who live on the labour of others,—the small minority who, feasting on the deck of the ship of western civilisation which is being steered straight for the abyss—have sunk into what Schiller called “der weichlichen Schoss der Verfeinerung” our hyperaesthesia has grown so morbid that every stripe we see administered raises a weal on ourselves.

Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases�irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power.

But no precautions were taken against hyperaesthesia further than enclosing the card in a second envelope.