Do the cerebellum and the oblongata represent two encephalic segments or only one? : abstract / by Burt G. Wilder.

  • Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
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[1885]
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Credit: Do the cerebellum and the oblongata represent two encephalic segments or only one? : abstract / by Burt G. Wilder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f [From the Proceedings op the American Association for the Advancement OP Science, Vol. XXXIII, Philadelphia Meeting, September, 1884.] DO THE CEREBELLUM AND THE OBLONGATA REPRESENT TWO EN- CEPHALIC SEGMENTS OR ONLY ONE ? By Prof. BURT (jr. WIL- DER, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. [ABSTRACT.] Since the publication of Von Baer's Entwickelungsgeschichte in 1837, the segmental constitution of the brain has been more or less distinctly admitted by most writers who have treated the organ in the light of embryology and comparative anatomy. Under various technical and vernacular designations, the fol- lowing have recognized two segments between the myel1 and the 1 In the paper as presented the common forms myelon and encephalon were used. In correcting the proof I have substituted for them the English paronyms, in accordance with considerations presented in New York Medical Journal, March 28,1885, and in the presidential address, Paronymy versus Hetcronymy, before the American Neurolog- ical Association, June 18,1885.