Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4.i2 THE CHARLOTTE MEDIOAL JOUKNAL
basement, basement and two stories, giving- ent neurons combine with spinal associa-
floor space of about ^1400 square feet or a tion neurons, through the intercalary v.eulittle
more than one acre. The sub-base- roiis, in augmenting: and inhibiting the
ment and basement will be of re-enforced outflow of energy of the spinal motor neucoTicrete.
The superstructure will be of roiis whereby the most varied, refined, and
brick with stone trimmings. The building complex u-uscular reactions in adaptation
above the ground will be massive, of slow to environment are effected. The nervous
burning construction with complete sprink- energy is expended in the gray matter of
ling system. The sub-basement is designed the brain and spinal cord. Other points
for a storage for drugs which are ground referred to by the author are the significance
green and packed in alcohol. The other of the nodes of Kanvier, theories in referfloors
will be occupied with finished stock, ence to the functions of the interfibrillary
The new building will provide the Lilly cb.romophilous substance of the ganglion
Laboratories with one of the finest stock cell and the dendrons. Is this chromophilbuildings
to be found anywhere, and it is ous substance the source of the energy,
imperatively needed to take care of the in- and if so, is it used at the site of its formacreased
demand for Red Lilly Pharmaceu- tion or is this substance, which in the dead
ticals. cell corresponds to the Nissl granules, a
Present Position ol the Neuron Theory store of energy- producing substance in the
Doctrine in ReSalion to Neuropathology, latent state analagous to the preferment of
— Mott, in the British Medical Journal, says the sweat glands, a substance which is
that a neur>n is a nerve cell, and all its pro- transformed into t';e active energy-processe.s,
including protoplasmic processes or ducing substance at the terminal aborizadendrons
and the axis cylinder process with tion of the neurons? In general the author
its cone of origin, its collaterals or side- regards the neuron theory as resting on a
branches, and its terminal arborization, surer basis than ever before.
The neuron thory is that the nervous sys ParaShyroId Findings In Galvanic Hy-
tern consists of in numerable such anatomi-
,, perirriialjl5iSyol . , , . . CiiiSdrcn.— Yanase(Wiecally
independent nervous units in cont.g-
„er Klin. Wchschrft ) savs that anatomical
uity out not contn.uny. 1 he author beexaminations
of the parathvroids were perheves
that he trophic and genetic indeformed
in 89 cases, the most common pathpendence
of the neurons has been estabological
change bein- found to consist in
lished. The question arises how are they
hEemorrhages into the glands. These hsmorcoimected
with one another? The method phages are acquired at the beginning of
of Golgi appeared to showthat the neurons
post-foetal life, perhaps during birth, and
are arranged m systems, and numerous ex-
^^,,,,0^ as a rule be demonstrated after the
penments were made te show that the deng^^j
Healing takes place in such a
dnlesexer