On the structure and physiology of the retina / by Max Schultze.

  • Schultze, Max, 1825-1874.
Date:
[1867]
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    TRANSLATION. On the Structure and Physiology of the Retina. By Professor Max Schultze. The paper of which we here give an abstract has just appeared in the last number of the author's 'Archiv f. Mikro- skop. Anatomie,' in which it occupies more than 100 pages, and is illustrated, with eight quarto plates. It is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and important contributions to our knowledge of the very difficult structure of which it treats that has ever appeared, and. it may be taken as giving an almost exhaustive account of all that is known on the subject, together with much, more especially in the physiological part of the subject, altogether new; and we deeply regret that our space prevents our giving a more lengthy notice of its con- tents, or, what would have been very desirable, a complete translation of it. In his general account of the structure of the retina we do not perceive that Professor Schultze differs very materially from most later writers on the subject. What he says re- specting it may, however, be very briefly stated as follows : The retina in man is composed of a fibrous or trabecular framework, composed of connective tissue, and which serves as a support to the nervous or sentient elements. The fibrous framework consists of an outer and an inner membrana Umitans, connected together by a network of fibres, the prin- cipal of which, passing from one limiting membrane to the other, constitute the radial fibres of Midler. These are connected by irregular lateral fibres, so that the whole con- stitutes, speaking generally, a sort of wide trabecular net- work; but at two special levels in the retina the fibrous tissue forms a very close, almost membraniform plexus, the