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The wall itself is delicate, with only a few concentric con- 
nective-tissue layers with many cells in young animals. 
2. On Articular Nerves.—Krause (‘ Histologische Notizen 
Centralblatt,’ 1874, No. 14) states that the nerves of the 
finger-joints in man terminate in peculiar bodies which he 
calls articular-nerve capsules. Four nerve-fibres penetrate 
each corpuscle, which is rounded or oval, and consists of 
connective tissue longitudinally striated, with oval nuclei. 
In the interior of the capsule are numerous rounded or 
elongated nuclei, and a finely granular material, in which the 
terminal non-medullated fibres ramify freely. These have no 
analogy with Pacinian bodies according to Krause. Rauber, 
however (‘ Centralblatt,’ 1874, No. 20), after stating that 
similar bodies are found on the nerves of the dorsum of 
the wrist-joint in great numbers, considers that they are 
modified Pacinian bodies. 
3. Changes in the Ganglion-cells of the Sympathetic in 
Inflammation.—Robinson (‘Stricker’s Jahrbiicher,’ 1873, 
No. 4) studied these by passing a thread through the aorta 
ina frog, and, after two to seven days, killing the animal. 
The aorta was then cut out, treated with gold chloride, and 
examined in glycerine. He found that the peculiar, strongly 
granular aspect of the nerve-cells disappeared, furrows were 
formed on the surface, and finally the cell-body divided into 
small portions. 
This division may either implicate the whole cell or only 
a portion of it, the remainder preserving its normal appear- 
ance. A similar change takes place in the cell-processes, 
but not so commonly as in the cell itself. The newly formed 
cells soon escape from the capsule when it is young and de- 
licate; in older and tough capsules they remain longer, but 
also finally escape, and become distributed in the inflamed 
tissue. 
4. Nerves of the Digestive Canal._—Prof. Arnstein (of 
Kasan) contributes a memoir on this subject to Pfliiger’s 
‘Archiv,’ vol. viii (Abstract in ‘London Medical Record,’ 
1874, p. 261). 
5. Terminations of the Nerves in the Cornea.—Dr. Durante, 
in describing the results of researches on the nerves of the 
cornea made by him in the anatomical laboratory in Rome 
(‘ Rivista di Medicina, di Chirurg. e di Terap.,’ and ‘ Gazz. 
Clinica di Palermo,’ August and September), states that, by 
soaking the cornea of batrachians, rabbits, and dogs, in 
solution of chloride of gold, and keeping them at a tempe- 
rature of 88° Fahr., he was, at the end of four days, enabled 
