Carpenter's principles of human physiology . d by Mr. Solly ;| of these there is a superficial set whichunites itself with the pyramidal columns, and a deep set which comes into rela-tion with the olivary columns.—The arciform fibres (a f, Fig. 211) cross theMedulla nearly at right angles, just below the olivary bodies, which indeedthey partly cover, and have been shown by Clarke to be only a superficialportion of a very important and extensive order of commissural fibres (wellseen in Fig. 215), the bulk of which is much more deeply placed, andwhich not only connect the opposite halves of the
Carpenter's principles of human physiology . d by Mr. Solly ;| of these there is a superficial set whichunites itself with the pyramidal columns, and a deep set which comes into rela-tion with the olivary columns.—The arciform fibres (a f, Fig. 211) cross theMedulla nearly at right angles, just below the olivary bodies, which indeedthey partly cover, and have been shown by Clarke to be only a superficialportion of a very important and extensive order of commissural fibres (wellseen in Fig. 215), the bulk of which is much more deeply placed, andwhich not only connect the opposite halves of the Medulla Oblongata bytraversing the raphe, but at the same time form the means of communica-tion between all the parts of each separate half, the net-like arrangementof the fibres being everywhere interspersed with innumerable cells ofvaried shape and size, from which many of the fibres may be seen to arise.* Op. cit., p. 245. t Op. cit., p. 148 et seq. t Philosophical Transactions, 1836. 576 FUNCTIONS OF THE CEREBRO-SPINAL NERVOUS Eh ?<© O sO -)& o Eh P «oO >-)<1 fc QQ Ph O t» O PS Hi « Eh «Eh STRUCTURE OF THE MEDULLA OBLONGATA. 577
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