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Show When Your Foot la Asleep, After being for a long tlmo In n constrained con-strained attitude n peculiar numbness and pricking nro often felt In tho arm. leg or foot. This Is caused by some Interruption In-terruption to tho circulation nnd can usually be removed by nibbing or exercise. ex-ercise. Tho reason of the sensation, which Is decidedly uncomfortable whllo It lasts, Is that pressure for a certain length of tlmo deadens the sensibility of n nerve. When this pressure Is suddenly sud-denly removed, ns straightening out tho leg after sitting with it doubled underneath un-derneath the body, sensibility gradually gradual-ly returns to the nene, and ns each nerve fiber composing tho trunk regains re-gains Its normal condition of sensibility sensibil-ity n pricking sensation Is felt, and theso successive prickings from tho successive awakenings of the numerous numer-ous fibers have not Inaptly been called "plus and needles." |