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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    Distal segment.— Many axis-cylinders are still uninjured. The breaking-down ones, however, are somewhat more numerous and scattered indifferently through the section. They are equally distributed at the upper and at the lower end of the section. Observation 54 Cat. Sciatic. Divided and immediately sutured. 5 days. In the proximal segme7it the axis-cylinders are normal until reaching the vicinity of the wound, where they terminate in swollen ends. On the distal side oi the wound some axis-cylinders still stain almost normally, but most of them are interrupted and irregular in diameter, swollen here and there. They are sometimes coiled up within the medullary sheaths, which are in a state of fragmentation. The finest axis-cylinders have remained unaltered the longest (compare Observation 10). Observation 55 Cat. Sciatic. Divided and not sutured. 5 days. Proximal segment.—The axis-cylinders come close down to the wound and terminate in Indian-club-Hke enlargements.