JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVI, 
Illustrating Dr. D. J. Hamilton’s paper on Myelitis. 
Fic. 1.—Transverse section in inflamed region showing transverse section 
of immensely enlarged axis cylinders. 
Fic. 2.—Transverse section showing the contracted axis cylinders under- 
going division. The divisions become rounded, and form colloid 
bodies ; in some an apparent nucleus can be seen. 
Fic. 3.—Portion of the anterior commissure, showing several nerve- 
tubes with dilatations on their axis cylinders. Some of these are 
completely separated and are becoming granular. 
Fic. 4.—Longitudinal section of one of the white columns, showing 
enlarged axis cylinders ; at the end of one a large granular cor- 
puscle can be seen separating. 
Fic. 5.—Longitudinal section of one of the white columns, showing the 
formation of pus-corpuscles from the large granular corpuscles 
seen in Fig, 4. 
