AND REMARKS ON THAT DISEASE. 
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marks of inflammation have been found at the tuber annulare, 
medulla oblongata, and various other parts, and sometimes red 
patches on the stomach and in the air-passages. In the present 
case, the medulla oblongata was rather softer than usual, and so 
were the corpora striata, and the thalami nervorum opticorum, but 
the middle lobes were likewise softened. The phrenic nerve and 
the spinal-accessory given to the neck and shoulder, and reaching 
even to the loins. 
“ The twitchings and contraction of the eyelids, the strabismus, 
the spasms of the cheek, and lips, and face, and the paralysis 
of the muscles of the lower jaw, sufficiently prove an affection of 
the portio dura. 
“ The protrusion of the tongue, the enlargement of the sublin¬ 
gual and other glands, the inability to swallow, and the altera¬ 
tion of the voice, implicate the glosso-pharyngeus. 
“ The increased circulation, the laborious respiration, the pe¬ 
culiar inflammation of the pleura, and the constant and often in¬ 
tense inflammation of the stomach, are attributable to the par 
vagum. 
“The involuntary barking, the husky grating inspiration, the 
frequent inflammation of the trachea, the uniform inflammation 
of some part of the glottis in the quadruped; and the dreadful 
excitation of the membrane of the glottis, with all the horrors of 
hydrophobia in the human being, testify that the recurrent nerve 
has not escaped: while the hurried and uncertain action of the 
fore extremities, and the palsy of the region of the loins, are 
clearly to be traced to the spinal-accessory. 
“These nerves anastomose freely with the cerebral nerves, 
therefore cerebral affection soon occurs. There is a state of 
general and extreme excitation, a very peculiar wandering and 
delirium, and, in some animals, fits of savage and uncontrolable 
ferocity. 
“ They likewise unite and blend with the ganglionic nerves, 
and thence proceeds altered secretion—a morbid secretion of the 
gastric juice occasioning the strangely perverted appetite of the 
dog; and a still more depraved secretion of the saliva, convert¬ 
ing that bland and innocuous fluid into the direst poison.'’ 
To this it might have been added, that, although the phrenic 
nerve, which supplies the diaphragm, has its origin from the fourth 
cervical nerve, it is very intimately connected with those from the 
medulla oblongata. Not far distant from its root it gives branches 
to the par vagum, and to the linguelis medius, and likewise, 
which is of most importance, as connecting the action of the dia¬ 
phragm with certain affections of the larynx, a branch is given off 
from it to that organ, after which it has communication with no 
