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sory. It was hoped that there was a wide field of 

 usefulness before this device of nerve anastomosis, 

 especially in infantile palsy. For instance, if the 

 anterior tibial muscles and peronei alone were 

 affected, the external popliteal might be divided and 

 the peripheral end put into a notch in the internal 

 popliteal. Unhappily, published results are very 

 disappointing, at any rate in the case of infantile 

 paralysis ; probably even the anterior horn cells 

 supplying useful muscles have been somewhat 

 damaged, and cannot take on more than ordinary 

 work.* The method remains hopeful, however, for 

 paralysis following other forms of nerve disease or 

 injury. 



REFERENCES. 

 A few recent papers of importance are : — 



Ballance and Stewart. — " The Healing of Nerves," 

 London, 1901. 



Head, Sherren, and Rivers. — Brain, 1905, pp. 99, 116. 



Harrison, Ross. — " Embryonic Transplantation and De- 

 velopment of the Nervous System," Anatom. Record, 

 Bait., 1908, ii, No. 9. " Observations on the Living 

 Developing Nerve Fibre," Amer. Jour, of Anatomy, 

 1907, vii. 



KiLVINGTON AND OSBORNE. Joitr. of Physiol., I909, vol. 



xxxviii, pp. 268, 276. 

 Langley and Anderson.— /ozir. of Physiol., vol. xxxi, 



1904, pp. 365. 418. 

 MoTT and Halliburton.— P^-oc. Roy. Soc. B., 1906, Ixxviii, 



p. 259. 

 Mott. — " Present Position of the Neurone Doctrine." Pres. 



Address, Pathological Section, Med. Chir. Soc, London, 



1909. 

 Sherren. — " Injuries of Nerves, and their Treatment," 



London, 1908. 

 Bethe. — " AUgemeine Anatomic und Physiologic des Nerven- 



systems," Leipsig, 1903. 



* See Murray and Warrington, Lancet, 1910, i, p. 912. 



