Diseases of the nervous system / edited by Archibald Church.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Diseases of the nervous system / edited by Archibald Church. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the facial. The strice acousticce (see below) are still within its area. The ascending trigeminal root is invariably situated below them ventrally, while the large nucleus has a more frontal situation. The first neurons of the organs of sight and smell are still to be described. The optic nerve which originates from the ganglion cells of the retina is divided into two branches of which the peripheral goes to the rods and cones while the central passes toward the brain, and after forming the well-known chiasm at the base of the brain (in front of the tuber cinereum) encircles the cerebral peduncles as the optic tract. The posterior portion of the optic tract disappears under the gyrus hippo- campi and the uncus of the temporal lobes which must be lifted if we would
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