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THE SPINAL CORD, BY J. GERLACH. 



ductive relations of the nerve fibres entering through the 

 posterior roots than in those that are brought to the cord 

 through the anterior roots. 



2. The morphological difference between the anterior and 

 posterior root fibres consists in the former originating directly 

 from the nerve cells by means of the nerve-processes, whilst 

 the latter are only indirectly connected with the protoplasmic 

 processes of the cells through the nerve-fibre plexus and 

 through these processes with the cells. 



