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 ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.

  • Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902.
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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 ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGB LECTURE XII.—The Nervous System . . .243 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, ßetina.—Division of nerve-fibres. The electrical organ of fishes. Muscles. Further consideration of nerve-territories.— Nervous plexuses with ganglioniformenlargements. 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 sensitive cells. Multipolar (polyclonous) ganglion-cells. Different nature of the processes of ganglion-cells. LECTURE XIII.—Spinal Cord and Brain . . .264 The spinal cord. White and grey matter. Central canal. Groups of ganglion-cells. White columns and commissures.—The medulla ob- longata and the brain. Its granular and bacillar layer—The spinal cord of the petromyzon and its non-medullated fibres.—The intermediate substance (interstitial tissue). Ependyma ventriculorum. Neuro-glia. Corpora amylacea. LECTURE XIV.—Activity and Irritability of Cel- lular Elements. Different Forms of Irritation . 283 Life of individual parts. The unity of the neurists. Consciousness. Ac- tivity of individual parts. Excitability (irritability) as a general crite- rion of life. Meaning of irritation. Partial death. Necrosis.—Function, nutrition, and formation, as general forms of vital activity. Difference of irritability according to the different forms of activity—Functional irritability. Nerves, muscles, ciliated epithelium, glands. Fatigue and functional restitution. Stimuli. Their specific relations. Muscular irritability.—Nutritive irritability. Maintenance and destruction of elements. Inflammation. Cloudy swelling. Kidney (morbus Brighth) and cartilage. Neuro-pathological doctrines. Skin, cornea. The humoro-pathological doctrines. Parenchymatous exudation, and paren- chymatous inflammation—Formative irritation. Multiplication of nucleoli and nuclei by division. Multi-nuclear cells; marrow-cells and myeloid tumours. Comparison between formative muscular irri- tation and muscular growth. Multiplication (new-formation) of cells by division. The humoro- and neuro-pathological doctrines.—Inflam- matory irritation as a compound phenomenon. Neuro-paralytical inflammation (Vagus, Trigeminus). LECTURE XV.—Passive Processes. Fatty Degenera- tion • • • • Passive processes in their two chief tendencies to degeneration; Necro- bioS (softening and disintegration) and induration -Fatty degenera- tion Biological history of fat in the animal body; fat a, a component of the tissues, as a transitory infiltration, and as necrobmt^ jnatter.- Adipose tissue. Polysarcia. Fatty tumours. Interstitial formation of fet Fatty degeneration of mnscles.-Fatty infiltration. Intestines; 316