EXAMINATION OF SOME SPINAL NERVES 
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1st Cervical Nerve. 
No skin-field at all has been found for this nerve in either of tw^o individuals especially 
examined for the field. On dissection I have never met wkh any nervous filaments belonging to 
Fig. 5- 
Anterior borders, 
light line. 
Posterior borders, 
heavy line. 
imb. 
it entering the cord in the line of the sensory roots of the other cervical nerves. The only nerve- 
filaments existing have been to all appearance those of ventral roots ; they are not numerous ; 
they are gathered to a single nerve-trunk, which passes tlirougli a small foramen in the transverse 
process of the atlas. 
