The nervous system and its constituent neurones; designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology

by Lewellys Franklin Barker

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...and from the fasciculus cerelx llospinalis. e.r.t., tract between the cerebellum and Deiters'nucleus; Vat, tractus spinalis X. trigemini. degenerated on the left side owing to section of the nerve between tile ganglion scinilunare and the iwns: Ho, nucleus olivaris superior: c.rf.r.. nucleus dentatus ccrebelli; I', X. trigeminus: VII, nucleus X. facialis: VIII. X. vestibuli. F. W. Mott, in a most convincing series of experiments, describes the course of the fibres from the nucleus funiculi gracilis et cuneati through the internal arcuates, decussation Mott, F. W. Experimental Enquiry upon the Afferent Tracts of the Central Xervous System of the Monkey. Brain, Lond., vol. xriii (1895). pp. 1-20. of the lemniscus, interolivary layers, and medial lemniscus as far as the diencephalon. He followed degenerated fibres in the monkey as far as the ventro-lateral part of the thalamus, where the degeneration appeared to cease. Tschermak has very recently attacked the problem again in Flechsig's laboratory at Leipzig. He destroyed the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi on one side in three cats, and studied the degenerations by the method of Marchi. He distinguishes four neurone systems, the perikaryons and dendrites of which are situated in the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi: (1) An uncrossed system from the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi to the cerebellum; (2) a crossing system from the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi to the cerebellum; (3) a crossing system from the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi to the thalamus; and (!) a crossing system from the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi to the cerebral cortex.f The first system (uncrossed system from the nuclei of the dorsal funiculi to the cerebellum) originates mainly in the pars lateralis of the nucleus funiculi cuneati Burdachi, th...

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