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pheral nerves, the spinal cord and the brain did not show us anj' 

 changes and with regard to the communication of Martinotti I 

 took moreover special notice of the hypophysis, which however was 

 quite normal. 



Still it could be possible that we had to do with an excessive 

 regeneration of the muscle-tissue, after a trauma, but for this we 

 have no positive dal a. 



Though in this case we have to do with a local tumourlike pro- 

 liferation of muscle-tissue, of which no cause can be discerned, and 

 which is of ' no use for the body, still 1 should not like to speak 

 of a tumour for just in strange proliferations of the tissues of lower 

 animals^ it is in my opinion far better not to be too liberal with 

 the word tumour. 



