The pathological anatomy of the nervous centres / by Edward Long Fox.
- Fox, Edward Long, 1832-1902.
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The pathological anatomy of the nervous centres / by Edward Long Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![physiology has shown to be capable of producing that symptom ; secondly, because alterations similar in kind, though difTering in distribution, occur as belonging exclusivel}^ to the nervous system, quite independently of diabetes. In a sixth case ])r. Dickenson found similar lesions in the cord, in one olivary body, and in the corpora striata, but in addition to these there was an ovoid channel in the white matter of the cerebellum partly filled with the globular debris of nerve-structure. In a seventh case, where the patient died at a very early period of diabetes, there were similar lesions in the medulla oblongata, and punctiform haemorrhages of the pons, whilst in the white matter of the cerebellum, and especially in the central part of the corpus dentatum, large vessels packed with corpuscles lay in eroded channels. Dr. John Ogle gives some cases of great interest with reference to the connection of diabetes and abnormalities of the nervous system. In his first case the diabetes of old standing dis- appeared coincidently with the appearance of some paralytic symptoms, which increased and persisted up to the death of the patient. The scalp and the bones of the skull presented nothing unusual. The dura mater was considerably adherent to the skull generally, but was itself healthy. There was much dark staining of the cerebral membranes along the track of the blood-vessels. The surface of the brain presented no unnatural appearances; but on section it proved to be what is termed a wet brain. The anterior portion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21179207_0433.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
