Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

Bmdcgetoebe-JKprperchen.)il.]Termination of Nerxof the nervous phenomena depend. A great number ofthese little bodies are associated with perfection of nervousactions, aiul vice versa. They are found very freely connectedwith the vascular nerves, and are abundant on thosenerves near the ganglia from which they proceed, and in theganglia themselves. These bodies with the nuclei of capillaryvessels and those of fat vesicles, and probably otherstructures with peculiar cells, which alone deserve the namehave been included under the term " areolar-tissue corpuscles,"( As specimens are usuallyprepared, it is quite impossible to distinguish these structuresfrom each other. Beale believes that the gelatinousfibres, or fibres of Remak are, after all, real nerve fibres,and not a peculiar modification of fibrous tissue, as is nowgenerally believed.The nerves and vessels, and with them, of course, theoval bodies, may be Stripped oil' from the elementary muscularfibre.the manner in which Nervei. terminate.—The fibres connectingthe oval bodies or nuclei form with them a networkthe branches of which are of course, continuous with thesubdivisions of nerve fibres. The arrangement of the network,and especially the number and proximity of the nucleito each other, differs materially in different localities.On sentient surfaces the meshes arc wvy small and the nucleiclose together: but from the complexity and great numberof the fibre- ;from the fact that many fibres which appearto be Bingle can be resolved into three or four individualfibres, and from the circumstances of the network beingimbedded in mosl cases in the midst of fibrous tissue, it isvery difficult to describe \\< exact relations and disposition.However, from the connections of this network with thenerve fibres, it would seem to follow that an' impressionmade upon a given portion of a sentient surface might betransmitted to the nervous centre by contiguous fibres, aswell as by the one which would form, bo to say, the shortestroute, and it is possible that impulse- to notion may beconveyed t