Cephalopods, like fishes and aquatic amphibians, have a mechanoreceptive system that is highly sensitive to local water movements.

With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory.

When his miserable life is over they lay him out—that is, they pull his legs, and try to uncrisp his fingers,

Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.