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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    nerves, in which the whole nerve is here and there swollen, hardened, knotty, discoloured, and degenerated in a greater or less degree throughout both its sheath and medulla.^ (1) De P/oz/fj-Me^ D. de myositide et neuritide. 4to. Tubing. 1790.—^a^se D.de neuritide. 4to. Halae, 1801.—Home in Trans, of a Soc. for the improvement of med. and surg. Knowledge, Vol. II. No. 11. — Bettoli in Giorn. della Soc. med. chir. di Parma, Vol. II. p. 256.—Martinet Memoire sur I'inflammation des Nerfs. Paris, 1824; and in Revue Medic, fran^. et etrang. 1824, Vol. II. p. 329—354.— Dugds Sur la neurite puerperale, etc. ib. Vol. III. p. 157—179.—Gendrin Histoire anatom. des Inflammations.—On the inflammation of nerves in hydrophobia, in the vicinity of the bitten part, Autenrieth D. de hactenus praetervisa nervorum lustra- tione in sectionibus hydrophoborum, Tubingen, 1802, has especially treated.— Brandreth, in Edinb. med. and surg. Journ. April, 1825, No. 83, saw in a case of hydrophobia, considerable inflammation throughout a large portion of the nerve.—Hertwig found only in two out of many mad dogs, the nervi vagi and sympathetici reddened at certain spots, v. Hufeland's Journ. 1828, Supplement, p. 55.—Reil Ueber Erkenntniss und Cur. der Fieber, Vol. IV. p. 56, found, in a case of typhus, several of the nerves inflamed, and improperly considered this accidental complication as the cause of the disease, whilst it was, at the utmost, its consequence. — Weinhold also found inflammation of the nerves in nervous fever. V. Kritische Blicke auf das Wesen des Nervenfiebers und seiner Behandlung. Dresd. 1814.—It is not surprising that acute neuralgiae, viz. tic doloureux, proso- palgia, ischias nervosa, &c. should be considered as arising from inflammation of the medullary part and sheaths of the nerves; this may indeed occur in some cases, but by no means in all.—Some interesting cases, besides those already mentioned, are described in Swan and Descot. — Sevres in Magendie's Journ. de Physiologie, 1825, Vol. V. No. 3, p. 233, (the ganglion gasseri, and the larger parts of the fifth pair of nerves.)—Ahlberg and Retzius in Ars-Berattelse om Svenska Lakare-Salskapets Arbeten, lemnad af Ekstrdm, 1826, (the ganglia of the lumbar nerves.)—Pelletier in Revue medicale franf. et^trangdre, Nov. 1827, (the ulnar and median nerves in tetanus, after compound fracture of the arm.)— Lohstein has seen the sympathetic nerves inflamed several times. (2) Practical anatomists will readily grant how difficult it is to decide, whe- ther the nervous sheaths and the nervous matter are only apparently or actually inflamed on account of irritation, congestion, extravasation of blood, &c. I have only seen actual inflammation of nerve up to this time, in consequence of acci- dental or intentional injury.—Morgagni once saw, in the axis of the ischiatic nerve, a long vessel filled with blood, almost a line thick, v. Epist. LXX. 10. (3) Morgagni, Epist. L. 11 and 55, found, in a popliteal aneurysm, the nerve here situated almost completely destroyed, which I also have noticed in a similar case. In a large tumour running into suppuration in the region of the parotid gland, one part of the facial nerve was completely destroyed, v. Billard in Archives de Medec. Vol. VI. p. 347. (4) Spangenberg Ueber Nervenanschwellungen in Horn\s Archiv f. med. Erfahrung. Vol. V. p. 306. — /tlexarider D. de tumoribus nervorum. 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1810.—/. L.Aronssohn D. Observations sur les tumeurs dcveloppecs dans l(>s nerfs. 4to. Strasb. 1822.—Barkow Bemcrkungen iiber die Nervenanschwellungen in Nov. Act. phys. med. Acad. Nat. Cur. Vol. XIV. Part II. p. 515, pi. 32, witli engravings.— Some cases, besides those already (juoted in Swan and Descot. Further Valsalva, v. Morgagni, Epist. L. 15. — Chcsclden Anatomy of the human Body, p. 256, pi. 28, 1741. —Petit in Memoires de I'Academ. de Chir. Vol. I. p. 90. — Pet. Camper in Demonstrat. anat. pathol. L. I. Cap. 2. § 5. — van Gesscher Ueber natur u. Heilart der verschiedenen Arten von Gesciiwiilston. p. 65. Lei])/,. 1787.—Ev. Home in Transact, of a Soc. for the improvement of med. and surg. Knowledge, Vol. II. No. 11, ]).152.— IMssct in Mem. of the medic. Soc. of London, Vol. II L j). 58.—Encycloi)edie metliodiciue de la Chirurgie, Vol, II. p. 41-2. —/iiV.//rt/ Allgcmeine Anatomic iibcrs. v. Pfaff, Thl. I. Parti, p. 303.— Marandcl in Bulletin de la Soc. de Medec. App. zum Journ. de Mcdec. continue,