Volume 1

A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.

  • Adolph Wilhelm Otto
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1831
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Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    child which had no lower jaw; and also a similar child, all the lingual nerves. v. Selt. Beob. Part II. p.168.— In a similar monstrous sheep, No. 8022, the third portion of the fifth pair was remarkably small, discoloured, and wanting nervous matter.—In some cases of hare-lip, and especially No. 2329 and 2896 of my Verzeich., I found the olfactory nerves too small.—In monsters which are entirely limbless, or have the limbs too small, the proper nerves to these are too small, as I have seen in several instances.—Dumeril observed the same in Marco Catozze, whose limbs, excepting the hands and feet, were deficient. v. Bullet. de la Soc. philomath. Vol. III. p. 122. (2) Desmoulins in de Blainville’s Journ. de Physiq. etc. p. 166, Feb. 1821, especially observes, that the nerves waste merely in the wasting of old persons, but not in young people; this is generally correct, although it has appeared to me, in some cases, as if the nerves, in young persons who had died of tabes, were sometimes dryer, that is, contained less fat and serum. Whether they were also thin I could not determine, on account of the great relative variation which naturally exists in the bulk of the nerves of different individuals.—I have never, however, found them remarkably thin in such bodies. (3) In hemiplegic and paraplegic persons, the nerves of the paralytic parts are very rarely found thinner than in those which can be moved voluntarily.— Even ii the paralysis have existed very long, and have occurred in very early youth, the nerves are sometimes apparently healthy. v. one such case in my Selt. Beob. Part II. p. 32.—It however appeared to me, in another case, in which, from earliest childhood, one leg was shorter and more slender than the other, as if its nerves were also more slender than those of the healthy foot, as was very natural. Sometimes also, in tabes dorsalis, the dorsal nerves are somewhat wasted.— Koreff tound, in one such case, the anterior roots of the nerves in a high degree atrophic. v. Magendie’s Journ. de Physiol. Vol. [V. p. 372. Oct. 1824. (4) The cause is sometimes in the brain and nerves; sometimes, on the contrary, on the organs of the senses. Ina child which died of water in the head, the olfactory nerves were too thin, brown, and hard. v. Jeffray in Lon- don Med. Repos. p. 278, April, 1822.—The auditory nerves have also been seen atrophic in deaf persons. v. fr. Hoffmann D. de auditus difficultate, § 12, (ina dog which was deat.)—J. Haighton,in Mem. of the Medic. Soc. of London, 1792, Vol. III. p. 1.—Jltard, in a deaf and dumb person. v. Traité des maladies de Voreille. Paris, 1821.—In the body of an old woman, I found the left auditory nerve of a yellow colour, and much thinner than the right. I could not ascer- tain whether the woman was deaf, though probably she was, as the membrane of the drum was ossified, and the cavity of the drum and labyrinth filled with a thick reddish jelly. (5) Compare the works on decussation of the optic nerves, and Vrolik in Mémoires sur quelques sujets intéressans d’Anat. et de Physiologie. trad. du Holl. par Fallot, Mémoire [. 4to. Amsterd. 1822.—Lieutaud Histor. anat. med. Lib. Il. Obs. 188—191, tab. 2, p. 867.—Wasting of the optic portion alone I have seen in four cases ;—further, Morgagni in several. v. Epist. anat. med. and De sed. et caus. morbor. Epist. XIII. 9 and 10; Epist. II. 30; Epist. LXITI. 6. — Isenflamm Versuch einiger prakt. Anmerkungen tber die Nerven. Erlang. 1774, § 58, p..170.—Michaelis Ueber die Durchkreuzung der Sehnerven in Grosse’s Magazin zur Naturgeschichte des Menschen, Vol. II. Part I. p. 149; und als besondere Schrift. Halle, 1790.— Wenzel De penitior. cerebri struct. p. 116, 119, and 120,—Beer Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten. Vol. II. p. 50. Wien, 1792, (in all cases, in which one eye was destroyed by inflammation and suppuration.)— Vrolik, p. 14, pl. 2, &c.—On simultaneous atrophy of the cerebral portion of the nerve of the opposite side, v. Valsalva in Morgagni.—Sommerring and Nothig De decussatione nervorum opticorum. Mogunt. 1780, (also several cases of animals.) —Billmann in Blumenbach’s medic. Biblioth. Vol. II. Part II. p. 391, (in a dog.) J. G. Walter von der Einsaugung und der Durchkreuzung der Sehnerven, Berl. 1794, (in three cases.) — Michaelis, (in several cases.)—Ackermann in Blu- menbach’s medic. Biblioth. Vol. III. Part I1.—Rosenthal D. de oculi quibusdam partibus. Gryphise, 1801, (in a horse and a jackdaw.)— Wenzel, p. 115.—Caldani Opuse. anat, p. 35, Patav. 1803.—Gallereux. v. Sédillot’s Journ. gén. de Médecine,
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