The retrospective address, delivered at the fifth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Cheltenham, July 19th and 20th, 1837 / by James L. Bardsley.

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Credit: The retrospective address, delivered at the fifth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Cheltenham, July 19th and 20th, 1837 / by James L. Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two portions of the cerebro-spinal system.* It has been stated by Wutzer, that a branch of the thoracic duet enters the vena azygos—an observation, I believe, not previously published.f Some recent microscopical investigations into the intimate struc- ture of the nerves and central parts of the nervous system have been made by Dr. Joseph Berres, Pro- fessor of Anatomy in the University of Vienna.]; These researches, confirmatory in some respects of certain results obtained by Professor Ehrenberg, relative to the tubular form of the nervous fibre, shew, however, that this structure is not quite so simple and uniform as it was represented to be by that distinguished physiologist. The discovery of this peculiarity in the structure of the nervous fibre has also been confirmed in this country by the experiments of Mr. Andrew Prichard.§ Tiie fact announced by Professor Arnold of the existence of a ganglion, which has been named the otic, on the third branch of the trigeminal nerve, has been corroborated by the dissections of Mr. Bennett, of Edinburgh. He represents its presence, however, as not being uniform. In the department of physiology, I find that some interesting observations have been made by Pro- fessor Schultz, upon the comparative facility of the act of vomiting in the infant and adult. He has shown that its relative difficulty and infrequency in * Philosophical Transactions, 1836. t HannSversche Annalen, B. ii, H. 1. 183(5. Also British and Foreign Medical Review, October, 1836. % Medicinische lahrbiicher desk.lt. Osterreich. Staates; xviij. Bandes, 2d. Stiick. JIri(>n, 1836. § London Medical Gazette, 1836.