General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3)Bichat, Xavier
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General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Bichat, Xavier
Human anatomy; Human physiology
1st. The adhesion is much stronger; the nerve breaks any where else
rather than at its origin; the opposite of this takes place in the
preceding system. 2d. It does not appear that the substance of the
ganglion is continued in the nerve to form the medullary substance of
it, since the organization of the one and the other is very different.
Sometimes, however, the ganglion is continued for a short distance in
the form of a cord. This happens especially in the superior cervical,
in the lumbar, the semi-lunar, &c. Then the form only is different; but
it is easy at the first view to distinguish where the ganglion ends
and the nerve begins. 3d. This beginning is made in a sudden manner;
it is like a muscle implanted in a tendon. The best manner of seeing
this arrangement to advantage is to cut longitudinally the superior
cervical ganglion and the cord it sends to the inferior; the change
of nature of the one and the other is then very apparent; or, if we
consider the ganglion as a division of the numerous filaments of the
nervous cords, we distinguish very well the sudden change that these
filaments experience in passing from the cord to the nerve. 4th. The
dense cellular covering that surrounds the ganglion is continued upon
the nervous origin, and gives it an increase of consistence at that
place. This must be carefully raised before we come to the nerve. We
see then each distinct filament arising from the ganglion. After it has
gone from it, sometimes it remains separate; this takes place at the
semi-lunar, the lumbar, the opthalmic, whose elongations are of great
delicacy. Sometimes many of these filaments unite together and form a
cord as between the two cervical, as at the great and small splanchnic
nerves, &c.
I have not been able by maceration, ebullition, or the action of the
acids to destroy the adhesion of the nerve with the ganglion, as we
destroy that of the muscle with the tendon, of this with the bone, &c.
II. _Course, Termination, Plexuses._
The nerves after going from the ganglions, are distributed in many
different ways which we shall now examine.
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