Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
11. Stimulation of the point of union of the first and second parietal
convolutions anteriorly causes opening of the mouth with protrusion and
retraction of the tongue.
12. Stimulation of the median part of the second parietal convolution,
causes retraction and elevation of the angle of the mouth.
13. Stimulation of the convolution directly in front of the outer end of
the crucial sulcus causes dilatation of the eyelids and pupil while the
eyes and head are turned toward the opposite side.
14. Stimulation of the convolution behind the crucial fissure causes
contraction of the muscles of the perineum.
15. Stimulation of the convolution in front of the crucial fissure, on
its anterior and sloping portion, causes movements of the pharynx and
larynx (swallowing).
16. Stimulation of motor areas of the cortex, by scraping, irritation,
or disease tends to produce spasmodic contractions of certain groups of
muscles (Jacksonian Epilepsy). Strong stimulation may cause general
epileptiform spasms, which are at first tonic, then clonic. One such
seizure strongly predisposes to a second. If, during an attack, the
cortical centres presiding over a special group of muscles were sliced
off, such muscles relaxed, though the general spasms in the other
muscles continued.
Localizations of Spinal Lesions.
Being at once a conductor between the brain and nerves, and a reflex
nerve centre, we must consider both rôles in seeking to locate lesions
from symptoms. In passing from the nerves to and from the sensorium both
sensory and motor currents cross so that one side of the brain presides
over the other side of trunk and limbs. This crossing of the motor
fibres takes place in the medulla oblongata, while that of the sensory
fibres occurs in the spinal cord close in front of the nerve from which
they have entered.
=Cross-Section of one lateral half of the spinal cord= therefore causes
motor paralysis and rise of temperature of the whole of that side of the
body posterior to the lesion, while it induces sensory paralysis and
cooling on the opposite side of the body up to the same point. A very
limited sensory paralysis on the same side occurs corresponding to the
few sensory fibres passing outward obliquely through the portion injured
by the cross-section.
=A vertical section of the cord separating the one lateral half from the
other= does not necessarily affect the motor currents, while it produces
a limited anæsthesia on each side in the area of distribution of the
nerves, the sensory fibres of which crossed in the seat of the lesion.
=Transverse section of the superior columns= causes hyperæsthesia and
lack of coördination.
=Transverse section of inferior columns=, or of the inferior horn of
gray matter, if close behind the medulla, causes no motor paralysis, but
if farther back induces motor paralysis on the same side of the body.
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