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The senses and the intellect (1874)

Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903 · New York, D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 50

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s cords frequently unite, as well as sub-divide, in their course, the ultimate fibres are never fusedwith one another. The nerve cells, vesicles, or ganglionic corpuscles, are littlebodies, of a variety of forms ; being round, oval, pear-shaped,tailed, and star-like or radiated. They consist of… … * Nucleated nerve-corpuscles magnified 170 diameters, a and b from thecortical grey matter of the cerebellum ; c and d from the spongy -rey matter 16 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. When we take into account the amount of grey matter inthe brain and spinal cord, which grey matter is made up ofthese bodies,…

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