Reference for Bava Kamma 7:18

ולטעמיך הא דתני קרנא ארבעה אבות נזיקין ואדם אחד מהן אדם שמירת גופו עליו הוא אלא כדאמר ליה רבי אבהו לתנא תני אדם שמירת גופו עליו

THE FEATURE COMMON TO THEM ALL IS THAT THEY ARE IN THE HABIT OF DOING DAMAGE. Is it usual for Ox [Horn]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to Rab who takes Ox as including Horn. ');">¹⁵</span> to do damage? — As <i>Mu'ad</i>. But even as <i>Mu'ad</i>, is it usual for it to do damage? — Since it became <i>Mu'ad</i> this became its habit. Is it usual for Man to do damage? — When he is asleep. But even when asleep is it usual for Man to do damage? — While stretching his legs or curling them this is his habit. THEIR HAVING TO BE UNDER YOUR CONTROL. Is not the control of man's body [exclusively] his own?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The phrase in the Mishnah is thus inappropriate to man. ');">¹⁶</span> — Whatever view you take,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if you take Mab'eh as Tooth. ');">¹⁷</span> behold Karna taught: The principal categories of damage are four and Man is one of them. [Now] is not the control of a man's body [exclusively] his own? You must therefore say with R. Abbahu who requested the tanna<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The term here designates one whose special task was to communicate statements of older authorities to expounding teachers, v. Glos.] ');">¹⁸</span> to learn, 'The control of man's body is [exclusively] his own,'

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