On outlying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal cord / by Ch. S. Sherrington.

  • Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir, 1857-1952.
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: On outlying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal cord / by Ch. S. Sherrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    122 C. S. SHERRINGTON. sides are much more nearly equal than in any bilateral degeneration which I have found in the cord. The diagram in Vol. X., p. 430, I would therefore amplify by a branch from the pyramidal tract crossing the median line at the base of the brain and descending parallel to the median line in the pyramid of the side opposite to the cerebral lesion. The spot in which injury to the cortex has in my experiments, so far as they have gone at present, yielded the most markedly bilateral degeneration in the cord is situated just mesial to the sulcus (Schafer), a sulcus that Horsley, conclusively, as I think, shows to be identical with the superior frontal of the human brain. As the name ''recrossed cannot be given to the branch tract from the main pyramidal crossing the median line at the base of the brain, that name seems on the whole unsuitable for use.