. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . oblongata exhibited acalcareous change, but the greatest number were fatty. The floorof the fourth ventricle, the tissue of the pineal gland, and of theependyma in the cerebral ventricles, appeared thickly interspersedwith brilliant corpora amylacea, also met with in the spinal cord andmedulla. The cord had not been equally involved throughout bythe lesion. A conspicuous absence of nerve fibres noticed alongthe cervical and upper portion of the dorsal regions in the rightanterior and lateral column
. On epilepsy : anatomo-pathological and clinical notes (with original plates and engravings.) . oblongata exhibited acalcareous change, but the greatest number were fatty. The floorof the fourth ventricle, the tissue of the pineal gland, and of theependyma in the cerebral ventricles, appeared thickly interspersedwith brilliant corpora amylacea, also met with in the spinal cord andmedulla. The cord had not been equally involved throughout bythe lesion. A conspicuous absence of nerve fibres noticed alongthe cervical and upper portion of the dorsal regions in the rightanterior and lateral columns, strongly contrasted with their largerproportion in the corresponding regions on the left side. Thisdiiference in the amount of fibres coincided with that manifested inthe calibre of the right spinal nerve roots. In the above namedregions, a transparent gelatinous degeneration, with infiltrations ofbrown pigment granules, surrounded the central canal, encroachingin some places for a great distance on the gray substance. This,very much disfigured on the right side, preserved a more natural. Hdio W. 2Ste^KT SERVE CELLS OF THE ME2ULIjA^ ariAirjLAlIOIJ COBPoSCLES. EPILSPST. OP EPILEPSY. 87 shape on the left. In the cervical and lumbar enlargements theanterior colums showed, in the right side, an areolar fibrous struc-ture filled with oil globules, they were almost disorganized andgelatinous between the cornua, and completely destitute of nervefibres. The connective tissue had less increased in the posteriorcolumns, wherein shrivelled nerve fibres could be made out: in thiscondition, they would be distinctly traced from the dorsal regionupwards into the corpora restiformia, to be there confounded withthe atrophied fibres of the lateral columns. The majority of nervecells, although disfigured, remained in other respects unimpaired onthe left half of the cord, but the tissue through the whole organcontained great amount of brilliant amyloid corpuscles, and gran
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