Literary Notices. i6i 



Sterzi, G. Die Blutgefasse des Riickenraarks. Untersuchungen iiber ihre 



vergleichende Anatomic und Entwickelungsgeschichte. Anaton. Hefte 



{Merkel u. Bonnet), I Abt., 24, 1904, pp. 364, 4 plates and 37 text-figures. 



This is an important contribution to a field which has been but 



little cultivated — the comparative anatomy of the blood supply of the 



spinal cord. The work is divided into two parts, anatomical and 



embryological. In the first, representative types of the several animal 



classes are successively described and in the second the development 



of typical species is followed. Each section is followed bj a summary 



and a brief general review closes each part. The general conclusions 



are that the blood vessels of the spinal cord divide in such a manner 



as to bring about more effective nutrition of the nervous matter the 



higher we ascend in the animal series, and that the ontogenetic stages 



traced out represent stages in the phylogenies of their species. 



c. J. H. 



Prince, Morton. The Course of the Sensory Fibers in the Spinal Cord and 

 Some Points in Spinal Localization Based on a Case of Section of the Cord. 

 Journ. Nerv. Ment. Dis., 32, 81-100. 



A stab wound in the neck severed both dorsal funicles completely 

 and the lateral funicles on one side more deeply than on the other. 

 Tactile sensation was preserved on one side, showing clearly that such 

 sensation is not transmitted exclusively by the dorsal funicles. A 

 study of the hemianaesthesia shows that tactile sensation is transmitted 

 by the lateral funicles of the opposite side. The case is important as 

 presenting an unusually clearly defined lesion with excellent oppor- 

 tunities for careful study. The paper is accompanied by a digest of 

 the literature. c. j h. 



Gushing, Harvey. The Sensory Distribution of the Fifth Cranial Nerve. 

 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hospital, 15, 213-232, 1904. 



An exhaustive and fully illustrated study based chiefly on clinical 

 examination of patients previously operated upon for complete extir- 

 pation of the Gasserian ganglion and of the cervical nerves. The 

 cutaneous distribution is mapped more accurately than has hitherto 

 been done and also the mucous membrane field within the mouth. In 

 the latter field the observations show complete anaesthesia to all forms 

 of sensation, including such irritants as ammonia fumes, on the whole 

 of the operated side, with two exceptions, (i) The area at the base of 

 the tongue supplied by the glossopharyngeus retains not only its sense 

 of taste, but also general sensation unimpaired. (2) The second 

 exception is the preservation of sensation in the field supplied by the 

 chorda tympani of the facialis. The sensation of taste is not affected 



