NEUROLOGISTS AND NEUROLOGICAL 

 LABORATORIES. 



III. Neurological Work at Zurich, 

 By Adolf Meyer, M. D. 



Pathologist of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Kankakee: Honorary 

 Fellow of the University of Chicago. 



Dr. C. V. Monakow, private docent for anatomy, physi- 

 ology and pathology of the nervous system at the University of 

 Zurich, is another very active disciple of v. Gudden's School. 

 As assistant physician of St. Perminsberg, one of the Swiss 

 asylums, he made numerous experiments, especially on new- 

 born rabbits and cats, and later on, as Privatdocent of the 

 Zurich University (1885), he had the opportunity of doing 

 much valuable work in experimental and pathological anatomy 

 at the University and in his private laboratory. 



He began with experiments on the connection of the cere- 

 bral cortex and the subcortical ganglia. Among these experi- 

 ments, those on the visual apparatus have been completed and 

 combined very elaborately with the study of pathological ma- 

 terial. The auditory apparatus comes next, but still shows a 

 number of gaps ; further, we find remarks on the fornix and its 

 supposed connection with the optic thalamus, and finally, nu- 

 merous remarks on the more peripheral connections of the cor- 

 tex cerebri. 



The examination of a case of tumor of the superior pari- 

 etal gyrus causing chiefly sensory symptoms, Munk's discovery 

 of sensible and sensory areas of the cerebral cortex and a com- 

 munication of von Gudden (partial atrophy of the thalamen- 

 cephalon after extirpation of a cerebral hemisphere of a dog) 

 induced v. Monakow to study the course of the fibres which 

 connect the cortex with the periphery and more especially with 



