And so the authors conclude : "The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ], leave positively no room for doubt that the sense of touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or, to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that is, from one end to the other - was unimpaired ".