. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . ular corpuscles, whichseemed connective nuclei enveloped by surrounding dilatation of the blood vessels, not exclusive to the regions ofthe hypoglossus, could be further made out in the vicinity of thosecells connected with the vagus and along its roots. The cervical sympathetic cells, without nuclei and reduced to a massof opaque granulations, seemed extinguished by the hypergenesis oftransparent connective elements, and amorphous matter. The capil-laries around the ganglia had also
. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . ular corpuscles, whichseemed connective nuclei enveloped by surrounding dilatation of the blood vessels, not exclusive to the regions ofthe hypoglossus, could be further made out in the vicinity of thosecells connected with the vagus and along its roots. The cervical sympathetic cells, without nuclei and reduced to a massof opaque granulations, seemed extinguished by the hypergenesis oftransparent connective elements, and amorphous matter. The capil-laries around the ganglia had also undergone a granular degenera-tion and dilatation rendering them very friable. They containedblood with more white cells than corpuscles, and distinct fatty mole-cules. This same structure could be noticed in the solar andlumber ganglia; but with them the preponderant connective tissuewas interspersed with corpora amylacea. The contents of the primi-tive fibres connected with these ganglia had either disappeared ortaken a strange gelatinous appearance, which I had not seen before. PLATE i:-:. *SYMPATHETIC NEHVE _ FIBRE S AND CELLS ,_ CHOLLE STEATOMA OF oeiiebellum;_epilepsy. ieliographic Eng. &. Prints Co. 135 W. 25 ^^ St. : OF EPILEPSY. 105 Case XII. Epilepsy. Death from diarrhoea. Brain and cerebel-lum normal. Amyloid degeneration of the medulla oblongata. This was a foundling girl, over a year old, of the Infants Depart-ment, Charity Hospital, who died with diarrhoea. She had epilepticfits preceded by yawning, or sudden starts, and frequently occurringthrough the day, for several months before her death. Microscopi-cal examination of the brain and cerebellum did not disclose anydeparture from normal structure, but the posterio-^ regions of theoblong medulla had evidently suffered the above described degenera-tion, with increased amount of connective nuclei and corpora amy-lacea. The sympathetic was equally ir>iured, and the abdominalganglia presented a consi
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