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.
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1831
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    the right eye, the optic nerve compressed by a scrofulous tumour just before its entrance into the orbit, v. my Selt. Beob. Part I. p. 108; in other cases it was compressed, together with the nerves following up to the eleventh pair, by a scirrhous tumour, v. Selt. Beob. Part II. p. 86, or by medullary sarcom of the appendage of the brain, p. 93. The third, fifth, and sixth nerves were, in one instance, compressed by a hard tumour, v. Landmann Comm. path, anat, exh. morbum cerebri oculique singularem. Lips. 1820. The fifth pair was found atrophic and compressed by tumours, v. Fribault and Marechall in Journ. gener. de Medec. Vol. XLIV. Aug. 1812, (in a person with face-ache, tic doloureux).— Desmoulins in Magendie's Journ. de physiol. Vol. V. No. 1 and 2, p. 21 (with loss of smelling although the olfactory nerve was healthy.)—Hay in Abercrombie, p. 432, case 20, (the seventh pair was compressed ; the sight and hearing dimi- nished.) Wasting of the fifth pair, with total destruction of the seventh and eighth, from a tumour, is described by D. Meyer D. de cerebri tumoribus. 4to. Berol. 1829, with engravings. In a man with double vision, paralysis of the right side, and distortion of the left eye towards the nose, the left nervus oculum abducenswas pressed by a tumour, v. Yelloly in Med. chir. Trans. Vol. I. p. 181. The seventh pair was compressed at its entrance into the petrous bone by a tumour, in an old man. v. J. H. Wishart in Edin. med. and surg. Journ. By pus in the fallopian canal, v. Bellingeri in Annali universali di Medicina, March, 1827. In one instance a tumour of cartilaginous hardness was situated on the auditory nerve, v. Sand/fort Obs. anat. path. Lib. I. Chap. IX. p. 117. tab. 8. fig. 5, 6, 7. The nervus vagus has been seen compressed and wasted several times, v. Cappel D. de epilepsia e tumore nervo vago inhaerente. Helmst. 1781 (the cerebral end.) —Biermayer Museum anat. pathol. No. 186, (by an ossified pointed absorbent gland, situated behind the left lung, tetanus and death.) It and the frenic nerve, in a person who died with difficulty of breathing, surrounded by tuberculous glands, and wasted at the lower part, was observed by Andral Nouvelle Biblioth. med. No. 7, 1826.—Biipuy v. Journ. gen. de Med. p. 5, April, 1821, and Jan. 1825, imagines that the so-called crib-biting of horses arises from the pressure of the nervi vagi above the superior laryngeal nerve, and was confirmed in some cases. Sometimes we find the spinal nerves compressed by tumours; hence arises paralysis of the lower extremities from hydatid tumours in the spinal canal, v. Chaussier in the note to the fortieth letter of his edition of Morgami De sed. et caus. morbor. Paris, 1822. In a woman with paralysis of one arm and of the feet, the anterior left roots of the nerves at the lower part of the neck were com- pressed and wasted by a tumour, v. Valpemi in Magendie^s Journ, de Physiol. No. II. p. 138, 1826. A tumour in the canal of the spine compressed the anterior roots of the nerves, and produced imperfect paralysis and violent pain of the feet. V. Monod in^oxxw. Biblioth. Med. May, 1827. Several instances of com- pression of the vocal and frenic nerves, and also of the branches of the sympa- thetic, from tubercles, aneurysm, &c., are described by Lobstein De nervi sym- pathetici humani fabrica usu et morbis comment. § 145, 147, and 156. 4to, Paris, 1823, [In Mus, St, Thomas's Hospital a scrofulous tumour in the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow produced paralysis with loss of sensation in the lower extremities, T.] (7) Swan, for instance, found in a man who had taken violent medicines, and at last was subject to canine hunger, that the oesophageal branches of the tenth pair were wasted and morbid; and in consumptive cases the trunks of the nervi vagi were frequently extremely thin. v. his Observations on some points relating to the anat, phys, and pathol, of the Nervous System, Chap, II. (8) As the thickness of the nerves varies exceedingly in different individuals, the considerable size which appears to have been noticed, viz, in the often-cited cases of Laumonier in Journ, de M^dec, Vol. XXXVI, p. 259, hardly belong here. It is an interesting circumstance, however, that the sympathetic nerves and the ganglia have been found unusually large, as for instance, by Cayre and Pinel. V. Nouv. Journ. de Medec. Vol. IV. p. 40-45, (in eight cases.)—Romberg found, in a girl who was an idiot from birth, the nerves in proportion to the brain very large and firm, but especially the ganglionic system of the belly, very large, v, Zeitschrift f. die Anthropologie, 1823, Part III. p. 224,—Lobstein De