. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . oring regions. 96 PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY The oblong medulla and portion of the spinal cord to the level ofthe second cervical nerve, as also segments of the brain and cerebel-lum were saved for microscopical examination. No membrane encysted the central lesion in the cerebellum, withmicroscopic characteristic of chollesteatoma, as shown in fig. 1, PI. scales, and rect§,ngular tables of cholesterine, mixed to amor-phous matter interwoven with fine fibriles and nuclei of connectivetissue compos
. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . oring regions. 96 PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY The oblong medulla and portion of the spinal cord to the level ofthe second cervical nerve, as also segments of the brain and cerebel-lum were saved for microscopical examination. No membrane encysted the central lesion in the cerebellum, withmicroscopic characteristic of chollesteatoma, as shown in fig. 1, PI. scales, and rect§,ngular tables of cholesterine, mixed to amor-phous matter interwoven with fine fibriles and nuclei of connectivetissue composed this structure, surrounded by varicose and finelygranular capillaries. I did not discover any granular corpuscles inthis part, but fatty globules and granules. This degeneration didnot reach the Pons Varolii; here was, however, observed the con-dition just described with the capillaries, besides an increasedamount of amorphous matter, with fatty elements and amyloid cor-puscles. The remarkable change existed in the spinal accompanying diagram shows a prepared section of the cord. at the origin of the second cervical nerve, as seen by myself andDr. Royster. The cord, when fresh, exhibited a softened conditionof the gray substance. Under the microscope the left anteriorand posterior cornua, as well as the parts around the central canal, OF EPILEPSY. 97 were considerably destroyed. The structure had here a gelatinousaspect, stretched across by very fine brilliant fibriles of neuroglia,mixed with granular amorphous matter, and portions of capillariesirregularly distended and granular. Only the base of the posteriorcornu had escaped such a complete destruction, and as to theanterior, it had nearly disappeared, while in this whole amor-phous mass the cells could hardly be made out. It would havebeen interesting to ascertain the limits of this degeneration through-out the cord. The nerve fibres in the antero-lateral and posteriorcolumns did not seem altered, excepting nea
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