Lectures on localization in diseases of the brain : delivered at the Faculté de médecine, Paris, 1875 / by J.M. Charcot ; edited by Bourneville ; translated by Edward P. Fowler.

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1878
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    subdivision into secondary department of the main cortical vascular territories of the anterior and posterior cerebral arteries. Fiss.of fJoIando Fig. i6.—^Vascular territories of the internal or median face of the human brain, indicated by the dotted lines. III. The anterior cerebral artery is much less frequently the seat of serious alterations than the Sylvian. That fact is doubtless in part owing to the angle at which the Sylvian leaves the internal carotid artery (Figs. 12, 16, and 17). This artery gives three principal branches : the first nour- ishes the two inferior frontal convolutions ; the second, much more important, is distributed (less commonly than the Sylvian, but much oftener than the anterior cerebral) to the gyrus fornicatus (Fig. 16), to the corpus callosum, to the first frontal convolution (internal and external faces), to the paracentral lobule and upon the convex face of the frontal lobe, to the first and second frontal convolutions (Fig. 17), and finally to the superior extremity of the ascending frontal convolution. The third branch of the anterior cerebral artery is sent to the quadrilateral lobule, which may be subject to lesions on its own account, as I have just now given you an example.