. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. cro-graph can represent, the initial focus of the lesion upon the left-handside in the lateral column, causing there a gap of substance in the sec-tion which was not due to hardening methods, as it could be followedup and down the cord for some distance. The distorted shape of thecord can be observed, the losses of substance in the posterior columns,and the sclerotic inflammatory changes that have taken place in theanterior and lateral columns. Let me say again that none of thesegaps of substance were arti
. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. cro-graph can represent, the initial focus of the lesion upon the left-handside in the lateral column, causing there a gap of substance in the sec-tion which was not due to hardening methods, as it could be followedup and down the cord for some distance. The distorted shape of thecord can be observed, the losses of substance in the posterior columns,and the sclerotic inflammatory changes that have taken place in theanterior and lateral columns. Let me say again that none of thesegaps of substance were artificial, for the reason that they could befollowed up for some distance in the cord, and that they were sur-rounded by evidences of inflammatory action in the portions of thecord in which they were found. In Fig. 110 is seen a drawing ofthe dorsal region of the cord above the focus of the lesion repre- SPINAL CORD AND MEDULLA OBLONGATA. 199 sented in the last figure. The white areas represent the places inwhich there has been great loss of nerve fibres, inflammatory changes, Fig. Photo-micrograph of a section of the cord in a case of myelitis, showing the focusof the lesion on the left. Magnified 10 diameters. and proliferation of the connnective tissue. In Fig. Ill is seen adrawing, magnified 350 diameters, of these sclerotic portions of the
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