Notes on the arrangement of some motor fibres in the lumbo-sacral plexus / by C. S. Sherrington.

  • Charles Scott Sherrington
Date:
1892
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    [From thi Journal of Phijdoloyy. Vol. XIII. JS^'o. G, 1892.] NOTES ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF SOME MOTOR FIBRES IN THE LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS. Bv CHARLES S. SHERRINGTON, M.A., M.B, Lecturer on Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital, London, Fellow of Gonville and Gains College, Cambridge. (Plates XX., XXI., XXII., XXIII.) Section I. At the commencement of some observations on the reflex mechanisms of the spinal cord in the Monkey, I was met by difficulties which made it desirable to attempt for that animal a somewhat particular examination of the distribution of the efferent and afferent spinal nerve- roots belonging to the lower half of the body. Various interruptions incidental to the work have delayed its progress sufficiently to make one desirous to record at this time some of the results obtained. The present communication has reference chiefly to the distribution of the efferent fibres of the roots. For the study of the functions of the spinal cord, it is of importance to know accurately the positions of the central and peripheral structures between which the fibres of the spinal nerves constitute links. An examination of the distribution of the efferent roots promises the more interest since the researches of Ferrier and Yeo' have led those observers to conclude that the complex of efferent fibres gathered together in each motor root is the outcome and the representative of some one highly coordinate functional synergy in the musculature.