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THE NERVOUS TISSUES 



tinctly linear arrangement. The Purkinje cells of the cerebellar 

 cortex are offered as the only example of this type. Even these 

 cells have lately been considered as 

 belonging more distinctly to the ar- 

 kyochrome variety (Xissl *). 



B. CYTOCHEOME NERVE CELLS, 

 which present but very little cyto- 



FIG. 105. NERVE CELL FROM A GANGLION ON THE 

 DORSAL ROOT OF A CERVICAL NERVE OF A 



BABBIT. 



Stichochrome nerve cell in the apyknomorphous con- 

 dition. Highly magnified. (After Nissl.) 



V 



FIG. 106. PURKINJE CELL FROM 

 THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX OF 

 THE RABBIT. 



- Arkyostichochrome nerve cell 

 in the apyknomorphous condition. 

 Highly magnified. (After Nissl.) 



plasm, and whose nucleus is small, being only about the size of 

 the ordinary leucocyte. Examples of this type are found in the 

 granular layers of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. 

 *Allg. Zeitschr. f. Psychiat., 1898. 



