The London Medical Repository, Monthly Journal and Review, Vol. 8: From July to December, 1817 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The London Medical Repository, Monthly Journal and Review, Vol. 8: From July to December, 1817

Dr. Gordon next examines the opinions of his opponents respecting the fibres of the brain; and regards their assertion, t rat the diverging fibres of the cerebellum take their origin from the grey matter lodged in the interior of the medulla oblongata, as a mere assumption. He thinks it is impossible to trace any fibres, either from the corpus restiform'e, or from any other part of the medulla oblongata, into the corpus dentatum, as described by Gall and Spurzheim; denying that the corpus dentatum IS a mass of grey substance; but aflirmino that it is a nucleus of white nervous matter, sun, rounded) with a thin capsule of brown that no nervous bundles enter or leave it; and that there is no correspondence in size between its projections and the lamina: of the core bellum; while at the same time he maintaim, that there is no such system of diverging fibres in the cerebellum as Drs. Gall ahd Spurzheim have described and that their system of converging fibres is equally visionary. He adds, that when Dr. Spurzheim, at his second demonstration at Edinburgh.

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