768 DR ALEXANDER BRUCE AND DR JAMES W. DAWSON ON 
lateral angle of the inferior olive, touching the grey matter itself, while two further — 
patches lie between the two arms of one olive just at the hilum and directly inter- 
Fic. B. 
cepting the strands of the hypoglossal nerve, where they pass between the mesial — 
fillet and the olive, the hypoglossal nerve on one side, therefore, being interrupted 
by three such patches. 
MIpDLE oF Pons Varoiit—‘“ C.” 
The most important patches at this level lie in relation to the fibres of the 5th 
nerve at their point of entry, both nerves being approximately equally affected. The 
