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of the eyelids had been caused either by the 

 section of the cervical sympathetic nerve or 

 the removal of the superior cervical ganglion. 



" ' 5th. Exophthalmia in animals born of 

 parents in which an injury to the restiform 

 body had produced that protrusion of the eye- 

 ball. This interesting fact I have witnessed a 

 good many times, and I have seen the trans- 

 mission of the morbid state of the eye continue 

 through four generations. In these animals 

 modified by heredity, the two eyes generally 

 protruded, although in the parents usually 

 only one showed exophthalmia, the lesion 

 having been made in most cases only on one 

 of the corpora restiformia. 



" ( 6th. Hsematoma and dry gangrene of the 

 ears in animals born of parents in which 

 these ear-alterations had been caused by an 

 injury to the restiform body near the nib of 

 the calamus. 



" ' 7th. Absence of two toes out of the three 

 of the hind leg, and sometimes of the three, 

 in animals whose parents had eaten up their 

 hind-leg toes which had become anaesthetic 

 from a section of the sciatic nerve alone, or 



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