Experimental researches on the central localization of the sympathethic with a critical review of its anatomy and physiology / by B. Onuf and Joseph Collins.

  • Onuf, Bronislaw.
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    Retzius, Dogiel and Sala, have illumined our knowl- edge of the minute structure and architecture of the sympathetic nervous system. Thus far, however, few authors have undertaken to determine the manner in which the sympathetic is connected with—or better said— localized in the spinal cord and brain. Of these few, the name of Gaskell deserves to be mentioned first. By a most ingenious plan of investigation Gaskell has studied the relation of the central nervous system to the visceral nerves, and has reached definite conclusions regarding the localization of the latter in the cord and brain. These conclusions we shall relate in another chapter. Strangely enough, Gaskell's investigations have not attracted the notice which they deserve; indeed, we miss mention of them in many of the best known text-books on the anatomy of the nervous system. Moreover, some of his conclusions have been contested and denied by Mott. These facts seem to justify further research in the same field and encouraged us to undertake the investiga- tions regarding the localization of the sympathetic nerves in the spinal cord and brain which form the chief subject of this monograph. By such investigations we hoped ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. Then further delay ensued owing to the fact that the illustrations had to be redrawn as the Paris Academy of Sciences retained the original drawings. This in turn brought up other obstacles postponing the publication to the present date. The paper was presented at the 1898 meeting of the American Neurological Association, an abstract of which appeared in the Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseSyiZqi.V.eei. The monograph having been completed in May, iSgy, naturally only the literature preceding that date has been utilized. Although since that time as far as we know, no investigations have appeared in the literature necess.tatmg any change of view in our researches, one or two contributions (for instance the valuable work of Matthews on the Physiology of Secretion-Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dec, i898)-seem to us to embody very import- ant views on the general anatomy and physiology of the sympathetic, and are referred to in the parts of the monograph on that subject. Aside from this, and the addition of a final chapter on Disease of the Sym-pathetic in Insanity, the paper stands practically as originally written.