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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: Rendus, in which he notes that ``the portion
of the hands which are not immersed in the
fused metal, but are exposed to the action of
the heat radiated from its surface, experience
a painful sensation of heat.'' He adds that
when the hand was dampened with ether
``there was no sensation of heat, but, on the
contrary, an agreeable feeling of coolness.''
Beckmann, in his History of Inventions,
Vol. II., page 122, says:
In the month of September, 1765, when
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