Cellular pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology : twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; tr. from the second edition of the original, by Frank Chance ... with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author, and illustrated by 144 engravings on wood.

  • Rudolf Virchow
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[1860?]
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Credit: Cellular pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology : twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; tr. from the second edition of the original, by Frank Chance ... with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author, and illustrated by 144 engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAOfI LECTUEE XII.—The Nervous System .... 280 Peripheral terminations of the nerves. Nerves of special sense. The skin and the distinction of vessel-, nerve-, and cell-territories in it. Olfactory mucous membrane. Retina. Division of nerve-fibres. The electrical or-an of fishes. Muscles. Further consideration of nerve-territories.— Nervous plexuses with ganglioniform enlargements. Intestines.—Errors of the neuro-pathologists.—The great nervous centres. Grey substance. Ganglion- [nerve-] cells containing pigment. Varieties of ganglion- cells ; sympathetic cells in the spinal marrow and brain, motor and sensi- tive cells. Multipolar (polyclonous) ganglion-cells. Different nature of the processes of ganglion-cells. LECTUEE XIII.—Spinal Cord and Brain . . .302 The spinal cord. White and grey matter. Central canal. Groups of gang- lion-cells. White columus and commissures.—The medulla oblongata and the brain. Its granular and bacillar layer.—The spinal cord of the petromvzon and its non-medullated fibres.—The intermediate substance (interstitial tissue). Ependyma ventriculorum. Neuro-glia. Corpora amylacea. LECTUEE XIY.—Activity and Irritability of Cellu- lar Elements. Different Forms of Irritation . 321 Life of individual parts. The unity of the neurists. Consciousness. Activ- ity of individual parts. Excitability (irritability) a3 a general criterion of life. Meaning of irritation. Partial death. Necrosis.—Function, nutri- tion, and formation, as general forms of vital activity. Difference of irritability according to the different forms of activity.—Functional irri- tability. Nerves, muscles, ciliated epithelium, glands. Fatigue and func- tional restitution. Stimuli. Their specific relations. Muscular irritabi- lity.—Nutritive irritability. Maintenance and destruction of elements. Inflammation. Cloudy swelling. Kidney (morbus Brightii) and cartilage. Neuro-pathological doctrines. Skin, cornea. The humoro-pathological doctrines. Parenchymatous exudation, and parenchymatous inflamma- tion.—Formative irritation. Multiplication of nucleoli and nuclei by division. Multi-nuclear cells ; marrow-cells and myeloid tumours. Com- parison between formative muscular irritation and muscular growth. Multiplication (new formation) of cells by division. The humoro- and neuro-pathological doctrines.—Inflammatory irritation as a compound phenomenon. Neuro-paralytical inflammation (Vagus, Trigeminus). LECTUEE XY.—Passive Processes. Fatty Degene- ration 356 Passive processes in their two chief tendencies to degeneration ; Necrobi- osis (softening and disintegration) and induration.—Fatty degeneration. Histological history of fat in the animal body ; fat as a component of the tissues, as a transitory infiltration, and as a necrobiotic matter.—Adipose tissue. Polysarcia. Fatty tumours. Interstitial formation of fat. Fatty