The healing of nerves.

  • Ballance, Charles A. (Charles Alfred), 1856-1936.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The healing of nerves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blood-corpuscles between them for some distance up the nerve. A cap of perineurium with fat cells in it covers the end of the nerve. {b) In the distal end.—No homogeneous coarsely granular masses are present like those in the proximal end. The nerve has retracted considerably farther than in the proximal end, and its stump is covered by a much larger cap of perineurium with fat cells. There is extravasation of blood between the medullary sheaths close to the line of division. Observation 2 Cat. Sciatic nerve. Divided and immediately sutured. 12 hours. The sections show—Normal medullary sheaths above and below the wound. Extravasation of blood- corpuscles in the vicinity of the lesion, both between the nerve-fibres and into the perineurium. The appearances are identical with those at the proximal end of the nerve in Observation i. Observation 3 Cat. Sciatic nerve. Divided, not sutured. 24 hours. (a) In the proximal end.—The fibres at the free end are