A complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U S army and navy . ellected in the front part of the spinal cord and the sensorynerves in the back part, apartial injury of the cordmay cause paralysis of mo-tion without affecting sen-sation or zice zcrsa. There are two kinds ofnerve tubules, motor andsensory. The former con-vey from the brain ordersdirecting motion, while thelatter carry to the brain in-formation as to a motor nerve is cut themuscles supplied by it areparalyzed because ordersfrom the brain can nolonger reach them; if asensory nerve is cut sensa-tion is lost in


A complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U S army and navy . ellected in the front part of the spinal cord and the sensorynerves in the back part, apartial injury of the cordmay cause paralysis of mo-tion without affecting sen-sation or zice zcrsa. There are two kinds ofnerve tubules, motor andsensory. The former con-vey from the brain ordersdirecting motion, while thelatter carry to the brain in-formation as to a motor nerve is cut themuscles supplied by it areparalyzed because ordersfrom the brain can nolonger reach them; if asensory nerve is cut sensa-tion is lost in the i)art sup-plied by it because infor-mation as to the sensorycondition of the part canno longer reach the nerves contain bothmotor and sensory fibers,but some nerves, like thefacial, are jiurely motor. There are certain reportsand impressions which aresent by way of tbe nervesfrom various parts of thebody which it is not neces-sary to refer to the brain for its action ; the necessary action is pro-vided automatically by what is called reflex ]• —Spinal Cord and >.e:vcs ^8 A^?.\T().\I^• AM) IMIVSIULUGY


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