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Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES ON THE ALTERATIONS OF 
NUTRITION WHICH ARISE IN VARIOUS TISSUES AFTER 
SECTION AND LIGATURE OF THE NERVES AND SEC- 
TION OF THE SPINAL CORD. 
By Drs. Laborde and Leven. 
Uecueil de Med. Vet., August , 1870. 
Lesions of Nutrition consequent on the Section of a Mixed Nerve' 
— the Sciatic. 
At a recent meeting of the Bibliological Society of Paris, 
Drs. Laborde and Leven detailed some interesting experi- 
ments they had instituted, with the intention of ascertaining 
the influence of nervous power — or rather the loss of nervous 
power — on nutrition. To render this expose more facile and 
comprehensible, as they say, we will from the commencement 
establish the following division : — 
We will consider apart the tissues other than the muscular 
tissue. 
The state of the muscles will be noticed separately, and 
we will give to this important study all the importance, ac- 
cording to the species, that it merits. Lastly, we will eluci- 
date the results of our researches on the experimental 
modifications of the nervous tissue itself. 
Section of the Nerve. 
1. Temperature . — The study of the modifications of tem- 
perature in the alterations of nutrition is most important, 
and we have not neglected it. Nevertheless we have not 
carried it so far as could have been desired, for want of a 
suitable instrument, which, in our opinion, is a requirement 
yet to be attended to in experimental physiology, and which 
we hope to be able to supply. But we think that we have 
obtained some results, w T hich, imperfect as they are, will 
not be without interest, and certainly deserve to be related. 
Section of the right sciatic nerve in an adult vigorous guinea- 
pig, on May 9th, 1869 : — 
