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

Otto, Adolph Wilhelm, 1786-1845.

Date:: 1831

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

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$brum, but all the nerves, except the sixth and seventh pairs, v. Phil, Trans. 1801, Part I. p. 139—\W. In a monstrous sheep without a face, and with a very small skull, and in which there was merely the hinder part of the brain, I observed that the first six pairs of nerves were totally wanting;—in a cyclopia dog, Magendie could not find the anterior five pairs of cerebral nerves, v. Journ. de Physiol. Vol. I. No. 4, p. 374;—and in a cyclopic lamb, Meckel could not find the first five pairs of nerves, v. Archiv fiir Anatomic u. Physiologic, 1820, No. 2, p. 263. — Klinkosch found in a child with one eye, without a nose, and with other deformity of the face, the first six pairs of the nerves deficient, the external branches of the fifth pair however existed, but the inner were wanting, v. Progr. quo anatomen partus capite monstroso proponit. 4to. Prag. 176G; rev. in Diss. med. select. Pragens. Vol. I. No. 12, p. 199. In a child without lungs, the second, third, fourth, and sixth pairs of nerves were deficient, v. Malacarne I. Sistemi del ccrpo umano e la reciproca influenza loro indagati, p. 90, 4to. Padova, 1803. In a child with deficiency of the right eye, the nose, and other malformation of the face, the first, fourth, and sixth nerves w^ere totally wanting on the right side. v. Rudolphi in den Abhandlungen der Akademie d. Wissenschaften in Berlin fiir das Jahr 1814 u. 1815, p. 185. Berlin, 1818.— Tiedemann saw in a dog, without eyes, the second, third, fourth, and sixth pairs of nerves wanting, v. Zeitschrift fiir Physiol. Vol. I. Part I. p. 76. In mon- sters with very imperfect face, with deficient lower jaw, &c., some branches of the fifth pair are wanting, and also other nerves going to the face. (fi) This occurs in consequence of the olfactory nerves originating from the anterior part of the brain, which is often affected with water, and are at first hollow, and connected with the lateral ventricles. The olfactory nerves are not merely deficient in all cyclopic monsters which have no nose, or in its stead a kind of proboscis (I have found this confirmed in above a dozen monsters wliich I have examined), but also in those monsters which approach to cyclopy, by the eyes being too closely approximated, &c., v. the review of Tiedemann^ in the Med. Chir. Zeit, 1825, No. 47, p. 408 ; and I have found it in a mon- strous pig. No. 8812 of Bres. Mus.; further in other monsters, generally with distortion of the face, and of the nose in particular, as in two lambs. No. 2950 and 8021 ; also in a child, No. 8297 of this collection; and Sommerrhig, in a chikl with only a single nostril, and a very small crybriform })late to the ethmoid bone. V. D. de basi encephali in Ludw'ig's Scriptores neurologici minores. Vol. J I. p. 4; and also his Addenda to Baillie, p. 263, note 563 ; also sometimes in hemi- ccphalous monsters, v. my Monstror. sex humanor. anat. et physiol. disquisitio, Francof. 1811, in the first, second, and, after repeated examination, also in the fourth case,—Selt. Beob. Part I. p. 13 and 47, and lastly, since that time, in some other hemicephala of the Bresl. collection.—Pairix Traite sur le cancer et sur les maladies des voies uterines, in Considerations generales, p. 18.—C. E. Rudolphi Monstror. trium pra?ter naturam cum secundinis coalitorum disquisitio. 4to. Berol. 1829, with three plates (in three cases.)—Lastly, also, not very rarely in children with hare-lip and wolf's-mouth, v. Lavagna in Giornale di Medicina prat, da Brera, 1813, V^ol. IV. Part III. — Tiedejnann, in three cases, v. Zeit- schrift fiir Physiologic, Vol. I. Part I. p. 72.—Blandin is said to have seen it in every case of wolfs-mouth, v.ron Froriep's Notizen, Vol. XVI. p.64, which, how- ever, is by no means the case, as, in thirteen instances of wolf's-mouth with hare- lip, only in five was the olfactory nerve wanting, to wit, in No. 2328, 2888, 2891, 2898, and 2939 of my Verzeichn. (7) Valentin in Eph. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ann. IX. and X. p. 429.—liosonuiiller Dc nervorum olfactorior. defectu Progr. zu v. Mariius D. de lepra taurica. Lips. 1816, (there were found instead only two little eminences in the sylvian ])its.)—Rudolphi \. Jilaiiroc/,- 1). de nervorum sensuum defectu, ]). 18, 8vo. Bcrol. 1828, (the right was entirely wanting, the left rudimentary where it lost itself in the arachnoides.) (8) Compare note 5.—P'urther Vicq d'Azyr Mem. de la Soc. de Medec. 1776, p. 315.— Weuleh; v. Schmidt in Ilimly's and SchmidCs Ophthahnologischcr Bjbliothek, 1805, Vol. III. Part L p. 170.—O.smnf/rr, Handb. der Kntbindungs- kunst, 1). 520, Vol. \. Obj. 6, Tiibingen, 1818, (in one kind of cyclops),—$