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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    aorta turned fii*st to the right side, the right nervus recurrens passed under the arch of that vessel, but the left on the ductus arteriosus Botalli, up to the larynx. V. Sandifort Mus. Anat Vol. I. p. 273 ; Vol. II. pi. 107, fig. 1 and 2. (12) I saw a wax model of this case in the Anatomical Museum of the Josephine Academy at Vienna. (13) Fried!ieh Monstrosi foetus descriptio atque delhieatio, p. 39. pi. 6. fig. 1. 4to. Altonae, 1803. (14) In the totally absent pericardium BaUUe saw the left phrenic nerve passing down close behind the breast-bone. v. Transactions of a Society for the improve- ment of medical and chirurgical Knowledge, Vol. I. p. 91. —In two cases, v. my Selt. Beob. Part II. p. 44, and in No. 2874, my Verzeichn.; with deficiency of the left side of the pericardium, the left phrenic nerve was curved forwards and to the right; a similar case is given by Breschet in Repertoire gen. d'Anat. et de Phy- siologic pathol. 1826, Vol. I. Call. I. p. 215, pi. 5. — In a child with prolapse of the heart and deficient pericardium, the phrenic nerves passed on the outer side of the great vessels, v. Haan, D. de ectopia cordis casu illustrata, p. 13. 4to. Bonnae, 1825. (15) Lohstein, § QQ, p. 53. § 252. The COLOUR OF the nerves is found irregular in various ways, and especially occurs in vicious structure. Thus atrophic or softened nerves usually lose their gloss and whiteness, become partly opake, grey, or yellowish, or rather greyish-yellow; contused or inflamed nerves appear more or less red through- out, or spotted and streaked with red; in ulcers and in morti- fied parts, the nerves are usually more or less discoloured; in great destruction, viz. in gangrene, in complete atrophy, in the cancerous-like state especially, we observe them at certain spots of different shades of brown and rust colour. In jaundice, they participate very little or not at all in the discoloration.* (1)1 have occasionally found in new-born children, which had perhaps died a short time before birth, the medullary part of the brain, spinal cord, and some of the great nerves, as the ischiatic, here and there of a light yellow colour; and Lohsteiny p. IGG, § 159, found one child in which the spinal marrow was of a citron yellow, and the sympathetic nerve of a similar colour, in spots; upon Kirrhonose, compare above, § 39, note 2. § 25S. Not less is the consistence of the nerves sometimes morbidly changed, that is, either decreased or increased; the former is the most frequent, and the nerve, instead of being firm and elastic, becomes soft, withered, shrivelled, easily TORN, and sometimes as if it had been macerated.* In some cases, the nervous sheaths exhibit a tolerably normal firmness, but the several nervous bundles are separated from each other, and as it were loosened. In other cases, however, the medul- lary part of the nerve especially is softened, as if it had been immersed in a solution of kali, so that the discoloured medullary substance has no fi])res, but runs out from a divided nerve like a thin ])ulp, like jelly, or even like water. Sometimes at certain