Both the subjective and the objective analysis are at present in a very imperfect state. Although there is much confident assertion and “false persuasion5 of knowledge” in both regions, there is, unhappily, little that can be seriously accepted as demonstrated. In the present volume we shall concern ourselves almost exclusively with the objective analysis, and do our utmost to mark what is mere6 inference from what is verified observation. It is only by Observation that facts can be settled; however158 Analogy and Inference may suggest where the truth may lie, they are finger-posts, not goals. At the best they only tell us what Observation would reveal could the processes be submitted to Sense.
In a loose and general way every one knows that the Nervous System is a dominant7 agent in all sentient8 processes; although not by any means the only agent, yet, because of its predominance, it is artificially accepted as the only one. With the greater complexity9 of this system, there is observed a corresponding increase in the variety of sentient phenomena10. The labors12 of anatomists have secured a tolerably exact plan of the topographical distribution of this system; a somewhat chaotic13 mass of observation and inference passes as a description of its elementary structure. The labors of physiologists14 have succeeded to a small extent in localizing certain functions in certain organs of this system. But imperfect as our knowledge of the elementary structures is, our knowledge of the functions is still more so. I wish I could say otherwise, and that I could ask my readers to accept with confidence what teachers confidently propound15. The attitude of scepticism is always repulsive16; the sceptic is seldom received without disfavor, because he throws on us the labor11 of investigation17 there where we wish for the confidence of knowledge. Yet it is only by facing the facts that we can hope one day to solve the great questions.
2. The nervous system has, in our artificial view of it, two divisions: the Peripheral18, which connects the organism with the external world; and the Central, which connects each part of the organism with all the other parts. Although the system is constituted by various tissues—neural19, connective, vascular20, and elastic—it receives its characteristic designation from nerve-fibrils, nerve-fibres, and nerve-cells; just as the muscular system receives its159 designation from contractile cells and fibres. This neural tissue assumes three well-marked forms: 1°, nerves, which are bundles of fibres and fibrils, enclosed in a membranous21 sheath; 2°, ganglia, which are clusters of cells, fibres, and fibrils, sometimes enclosed in a sheath, sometimes not; 3°, centres, which are artificial divisions of the neural axis22, serving as points of union for different organs.
In the Invertebrata the neural axis is the chain of ganglionic masses running along the ventral side, and giving off the nerves to organs of sense, and to the muscles. It may be seen represented in Fig23. 1.
Fig. 1.—Nervous system of a beetle24. The small round masses, or ganglia, are seen to be connected by longitudinal fibres, and from the ganglia issue fibres to the limbs, organs of sense, and viscera.
In the Vertebrata the axis is dorsal25, and is called the cerebro-spinal26 axis, including brain and spinal cord. When we look at this structure superficially we see various nerves radiating from it to skin, glands27, and muscles; but a closer examination, enlightened by knowledge of function, shows that some of these nerves pass into it from the various surfaces and sense-organs, and are therefore called afferent or sensory28; whereas another set passes out of it to glands and muscles, and these nerves are therefore called efferent or motory. There are also fibres which, passing from one part of the great centre to another, are called commissural.
To this brief account of the cerebro-spinal system may be added a word on the connected chain of ganglia and nerves known as the Sympathetic, because it was formerly29 supposed to be the organ through which the various “sympathies” were effected. It is now held to be the160 system devoted30 to the viscera and blood-vessels; but there is still great want of agreement among physiologists as to whether it is an independent system, having a special structure somewhat different from that of the cerebro-spinal, or whether it is simply a great plexus of nerves and ganglia, only topographically distinguishable from the rest of the nervous system. Into this point it is unnecessary for me to enter here. Enough to say, that I entirely31 agree with Sigmund Mayer in adopting the second view.80 In no histological character, yet specified32, are the sympathetic nerves and ganglia demarcated from the others. There are, indeed, more non-medullary fibres (the gray fibres of Remak) in the sympathetic; but the same fibres are also abundant in the cerebro-spinal system; and the sympathetic has also its large medullary fibres.
3. The Centres are composed of two substances: the gray and the white. The gray substance is often called the vesicular because of its abundant cells; but it has even more fibres than cells, and the white substance has also a few cells.81 The gray substance is distributed over the surface of the brain—in the convolutions; and in various other parts of the encephalon. It surrounds the central canal which forms the ventricles of the brain and is continued as a very small cavity all down the spinal cord. Besides entering into the important and conspicuous33 masses known as the cerebral34 ganglia—(the optic thalami, and corpora striata)—the gray substance is massed in the corpora quadrigemina, crura cerebri pons varolii, and medulla oblongata. We shall have occasion to refer to each of those parts. Until modern times all the masses included in the skull35 under the familiar term161 Brain (or the technical term Encephalon) were regarded as the only centre, and also as the origin of all the nerves. Nor has this notion even yet entirely disappeared, although the spinal cord is known not to be a large nerve trunk, but a centre or connected chain of centres, structurally37 and functionally38 similar to the cranial centres. The shadow of the ancient error still obscures interpretation39 of the part this spinal cord plays in the sentient mechanism40; and thus although the cord is universally admitted to be a centre for “sensitive impressions,” it is usually excluded from Sensation. This widespread and misleading notion will be critically examined in a future problem.
4. Beginning our survey of the cerebro-spinal axis with the Spinal Cord, we observe it to consist: 1°, of central gray substance surrounding the scarcely visible canal, which is all that remains41 of the primitive42 groove43 in the germinal membrane44 (§ 9); 2°, irregular gray masses, called the anterior45 and posterior horns,82 connected with the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves; and 3°, strands46 of white fibres enclosing this central substance, and called the anterior lateral47 and posterior columns.
Like the Cerebrum, it is a double organ formed by two symmetrical halves, as the cerebrum is of two hemispheres. Each half innervates the corresponding half of the body. The cord is unlike the cerebrum in external form, though very like it in internal structure. The gray structure is mainly external in the cerebrum, and is internal in the cord.
From the anterior side of the cord (that which in animals is the under side) the motor nerves issue; from the posterior (in animals the upper) side, issue the sensory nerves. On each of the sensory nerves there is a ganglion.162 The roots of each nerve, formed of several rootlets issuing from the anterior and posterior columns, subsequently unite together, and proceed in a single sheath to muscles and skin, separating again, however, before they reach muscles and skin. Fig. 2 represents this arrangement.
Fig. 2.—A portion of the spinal cord with its nerves (after Bernard). The left-hand figure shows the anterior side; the right-hand the posterior. A the anterior, and P, the posterior root, they meet at g, the ganglion; c and d are filaments48 connecting two posterior roots.
5. There are thirty-one pairs (sometimes thirty-two) of such nerves—namely, eight cervical, twelve thoracic, five lumbar, five sacral, and one (or two) coccygeal. Figs49. 3 to 6 represent transverse sections, which display the entrance of the roots of the nerves into the anterior and posterior horns.
6. Similar masses of gray substance in the Medulla Oblongata (which is the name given to the cord when it passes into the skull)83 are supposed to be the origins of some other nerves (the cranial).
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Fig. 3.—Transverse section of one half of the spinal cord in the lumbar region (after K?lliker). a, anterior root entering the anterior gray horns, m and l, where cells are clustered; c, central canal; d and e, the anterior and posterior commissures uniting the two halves of the cord; b, posterior root entering the posterior gray horn.
Fig. 4.—Transverse section of both halves of the cord, cervical region. a, Fissure50 separating the anterior columns; b, fissure of the posterior.
Fig. 5.—Transverse section of the cord in the dorsal region.
Fig. 6.—Transverse section in the lumbar region.
Although the Medulla Spinalis is unquestionably continued164 as the Medulla Oblongata, the arrangement of its tissues here becomes gradually changed, and so complicated that it baffles the scalpel. Anatomists are, however, agreed on the one point of fundamental importance to us here—namely, that there is only a rearrangement, not a new tissue. Accepting the artificial division into two organs, we may say that their functions are different, inasmuch as they are different in their anatomical connections—they innervate different parts; but as nerve-centres they have one and the same property.
On its posterior surface the Medulla Oblongata opens as the fourth ventricle. It is then no longer a closed canal, but an expansion of the spinal canal, which is covered by the Cerebellum. On its anterior surface projects the pons varolii. Figs. 7 and 8 represent these.
Fig. 7.—Back, or upper view of the Medulla Oblongata as it continues the Med. Spinalis. 1, Section of the thalami; 2, corpora quadrigemina (the two lower bodies are imperfectly represented in the engraving); 3, section of the crura cerebelli; 4, the fourth ventricle; 5, the restiform bodies; 6, the calamus scriptorius.
Fig. 8.—Front, or under view of the Med. Oblong. 1, Optic nerves cut off at the chiasma; 2, crura cerebri; 3, pons varolii; 4, olivary bodies; 5, anterior pyramids; 6, spinal columns.
While thus on the one hand continuing the Medulla Spinalis, the Medulla Oblongata is seen on the other hand to be continuous with the Brain—its white columns passing upwards51 in the crura cerebri, its cavity repeated in the other ventricles. Above it lie the ganglionic masses, the corpora quadrigemina, optic thalami, and corpora striata. Crowning these are the big and little165 brains, Cerebrum and Cerebellum. Figs. 9 and 10 represent this relation of Medulla Spinalis, Medulla Oblongata, and Brain. Fig. 11 is a purely52 artificial diagram166 which will give the reader some idea of the disposition53 of the white and gray substances.
Fig. 9.—Human Brain in Profile. 1, Cerebrum; 2, cerebellum; 3, pons varolii and medulla oblongata.
Fig. 10.—One half of the Brain in Profile, from the inside. 1, Convolutions of the cerebrum; 2, corpus callosum or great commissure uniting the two hemispheres; 3, arbor54 vit? or branching arrangement of gray and white matter in the cerebellum; 4, pons varolii and medulla.
Fig. 11.—Diagram of a vertical55 section of the Brain (after Dalton). 1, Olfactory56 ganglion; 2, cerebral hemisphere; 3, corpus striatum; 4, thalamus; 5, corpora quadrigemina; 6, cerebellum; 7, ganglion of the pons varolii; 8, olivary body.
7. In man the Cerebrum is to the Cerebellum as 9 to 1. In the lower vertebrates the preponderance is still167 greater. The cerebrum is in our artificial systems commonly divided into three lobes58. The frontal lobe57 is that portion which lies in front of the deep fissure named after Rolando; between that fissure and the “internal perpendicular59 fissure” lies the parietal lobe; behind this we have the occipital lobe; and, below the fissure of Sylvius, the tempero-sphenoidal lobe. Each lobe is again subdivided61 according to its convolutions.
The disposition of the fibres in the brain is far too complex to be accurately62 followed. All that we can say is, that there are strands which connect one convolution with another, strands which connect one hemisphere with another, strands which connect cerebrum with cerebellum, and strands which connect the cerebrum with the lower ganglia. It is important to conceive this distinctly; for we shall hereafter see that the function of the Brain (by brain is here meant both Cerebrum and Cerebellum) is not that of innervation, but of incitation63 and regulation. To speak metaphorically64, it is the coachman who holds in his hands the reins65, and guides the team. One cardinal66 fact should arrest attention, namely, that not a single nerve in the body has its origin or centre of innervation in the cerebrum and cerebellum. The olfactory and optic nerves do indeed seem to issue from the cerebrum; and are commonly described as cerebral nerves. But the facts of Development, minute Anatomy67, and Experiment prove this to be inexact. Although I shall continue to speak of the olfactory and optic nerves in accordance with universal usage, not wishing to burden the reader with unnecessary innovations, I must at the outset express my opinion that these nerves cannot be brought under the same general type as the other sensory nerves. Embryology and Anatomy suggest that they have no more claim to the title than the crura cerebri. Of this hereafter. Setting these aside,168 no one now refuses to acknowledge that Cerebrum and Cerebellum, although centres of Incitation and Association, are not the centres of direct Innervation: the organic mechanism in all its physiological69 processes will act independently of them (so far as such artificial distinctions are admissible at all). This does not throw a doubt on their physiological functions, nor on their participation70 in the normal execution of physiological processes.
8. From this rapid survey two important points may be selected for special attention. First, the continuity of the neural axis throughout; secondly71, the fundamental similarity of its structure, underlying72 great variations in its form and connections. This, which is the anatomical expression of the Unity73 of the nervous system, will become more evident after we have expounded74 what Embryology and Microscopic75 Anatomy teach. We may therefore digress here awhile to consider
THE EARLY FORMS OF NERVE CENTRES.
9. In the outermost76 layer of the germinal membrane of the embryo68 a groove appears, which deepens as its sides grow upwards, and finally close over and form a canal. This canal is composed of cells all alike. Its foremost extremity77 soon bulges78 into three well-marked enlargements, which are then called the primitive cerebral vesicles. The cavities of these vesicles are continuous. Except in position and size, there are no discernible differences in these vesicles, which are known as the Fore-brain, Middle-brain, and Hind-brain.
10. The Fore-brain soon buds off from each side a small vesicle. This is the optic vesicle, the first rudiment79 of what subsequently becomes optic nerve and retina. At this period it is simply a vesicle with a hollow stem, the cavity being continuous with the cavity169 of the cerebral vesicle, and the walls continuous with the cerebral wall.
It thus appears that the retina and optic “nerve” are primitive portions of the brain—a detached segment of the general centre, identical in structure with the cerebral vesicle, and not unlike in form. A cup-like depression quickly forms the optic vesicle into an inner and an outer fold. The inner or concave fold becomes the retina, and the outer or convex fold (that nearest to the brain) becomes its choroid membrane. On the fourth day of incubation the retina of the chick is composed of spindle-shaped cells, all alike. On the seventh day there is a differentiation80 into layers, one of which on the eighth day is granular; on the tenth two are granular; and on the thirteenth ganglionic cells appear. Some of the cells have elongated81 into radial fibres (known as Müller’s fibres); and with the appearance of rods and cones82 the normal retinal elements are complete.
11. The researches of Foster and Balfour84 confirm the statement that all the different parts of the retina (whether nervous or connective) are derived from one and the same layer of embryonic83 cells, which originally formed a portion of the first cerebral vesicle.
12. Meanwhile the hollow stem of this optic vesicle begins to develop fibres amidst the nuclei84 of its walls. The “optic nerve” arises: it is still hollow; and in birds remains so through life. The fibres as they are developed grow forwards towards the retina, and spread over its internal surface. They also grow forwards towards the brain, and spread over its substance; but it is not, as might be supposed, and is generally believed, with the cerebral hemispheres (or that portion of the Fore-brain from which170 these are derived), but with the Middle-brain (which becomes the corpora quadrigemina), that the optic fibres are in connection.85
13. This will be understood when the further development is traced. The Fore-brain, after budding off the optic vesicles, buds off two larger vesicles—the future cerebral hemispheres. This is noticeable on the second day of incubation, and by the third day each vesicle is as large as the whole of the original Fore-brain. Their development is essentially85 like that of the optic vesicles; both as to the cellular86 and the fibrous elements.
The convolutions, corpus callosum, nucleus87 lentiformis, and corpora striata are then indicated. Meanwhile, that which originally was the Fore-brain has lapsed88 into the secondary rank as Intermediate-brain (Zwischenhirn), and becomes the parts surrounding the third ventricle, namely, the thalami, corpora candicantia, infundibulum, and what is called the “posterior perforated substance.”
14. The Middle-brain, or Second Vesicle, develops the corpora quadrigemina from the roof of its cavity, and the crura cerebri from its floor.
The Hind-brain, or Third Vesicle, divides into two, like the First Vesicle; it buds off the hemispheres of the cerebellum; its cavity forms the fourth ventricle; its walls the medulla oblongata.
15. It thus appears that the primitive membrane forms into a canal, which enlarges at one part into three vesicles, and from these are developed the encephalic structures. The continuity of the walls and cavities of these vesicles is never obliterated89 throughout the subsequent changes. It is also traceable throughout the medulla spinalis. And microscopic investigation reveals that underneath90 all the morphological changes the walls of the whole cerebro-spinal171 axis are composed of similar elements on a similar plan.86
16. Two conclusions directly follow from this exposition:—first, that since the structure of the great axis is everywhere similar, the properties must be similar; secondly, that since there is structural36 continuity, no one part can be called into activity without at the same time more or less exciting that of all the rest.
THE PERIPHERAL SYSTEM.
17. Following the analytical91 division, we now come to the Peripheral System of nerves and ganglia. The separation, I must often repeat, is purely artificial; but the artifice92 has conveniences. We separate in the same way the heart from veins93 and arteries94, and the capillary95 circulation from the arterial.
Each nerve has its direct connection with a particular centre, and indirectly96 with the whole system. It has its circumscribed97 territory, and individual office. Except in a few cases of anastomosis, the action of one nerve does not involve that of another: only one muscle or one group of muscles is moved, without exciting motion in a neighbor. It is through the centres that these individual territories are united; and a wave of excitation always passes throughout the central substance. Thus the centres are not simply organs of association, consequently of172 regulation, but are the nexus98 whereby the diversity of the actions is integrated into the unity of consensus99.
18. Nothing further need at present be stated respecting the nerves; but it is needful to give precision to the ideas of
GANGLIA AND CENTRES,
usually spoken of as if they were convertible100 terms. That this is inexact may be readily shown, and that it is misleading appears in its causing physiologists to credit every ganglion, wherever found, with central functions; and, by an almost inevitable101 extension of the error, has led to the assignment of central functions to a single ganglionic cell! This is but part of that “superstition of the cell” against which I shall have to protest. I will not here raise the doubt which presses from various sides respecting the central functions of the ganglia in the heart and intestines102, because the reader perhaps shares the general opinion on that point; but let me simply ask what central function can possibly be assigned to the ganglia on each of the spinal sensory nerves? above all to those grouped and scattered103 ganglionic cells which are found at the peripheral termination of some nerves, and in the very trunks of others? There may, indeed, be imagined a central function for the ganglia in the mesentery, and even in the choroid coat of the retina, on the hypothesis (quite gratuitous104, I think) of their regulating the circulation; but even this explanation cannot be adopted with respect to the ganglionic cells which appear in the course of the nerve.87
173 The meaning of a physiological centre is, that it is a point to which stimulations proceed, and from which they are reflected. The meaning of a ganglion is, that it is a group of nerve cells dispersed105 among, or in continuation with, nerve fibres: it may be a centre of reflection, or it may not; and in the latter case its physiological office is at present undetermined. A ganglion is no more a centre in virtue106 of its cell-group than a muscle is a limb. All function depends on connection, and central function demands a connection of afferent and efferent parts.
19. The ganglia found in the ventral cord of the Invertebrate107 (see Fig. 1) are centres, each of which has considerable independence, each regulating a single segment of the body, or a group of similar segments. As the scale of animal complexity ascends108, these separated centres tend more and more to coalesce109, and with this coalescence110 comes an increasing combination of movements.88 Observe the caterpillar111 slowly crawling over a leaf; each segment of its body moves in succession; but when this caterpillar becomes a butterfly the body moves rapidly, and all at once. Open the caterpillar, and you find its nervous centres are thirteen separate ganglia, each presiding over a distinct part of the body, and each capable of174 independent action. Open the butterfly, and you find the thirteen ganglia greatly changed: the second and third are fused into one; the fourth, fifth, and sixth into another; the eleventh and twelfth into another; the only trace of the original separation is in a slight constriction112 of the surface. The movements of the caterpillar were few, simple, slow, and those of the butterfly are many, varied113, and rapid.
20. In the Vertebrates the coalescence of ganglia is such that the spinal axis is one great centre. We do indeed anatomically and physiologically114 subdivide60 it into several centres, because several portions directly innervate separate organs; but its importance lies in the intimate blending of all parts, so that fluctuating combinations of its elements may arise, and varied movements result. Each centre combines various muscles; the axis is a combination of centres. The brainless frog, for instance, has still the spinal cord, and therefore the power not only of moving either of his limbs, but also of combining their separate movements: if grasped, he struggles and escapes; if pricked115, he hops116 away. But these actions, although complex, are much less complex and varied than the actions of the normal frog.
There is not only a coalescence of ganglia, but a greater and greater concentration of the substance in the upper portions of the axis. In the inferior vertebrates, and in the mammalian embryo, the spinal cord occupies the whole length of the vertebral canal from the head to the tip of the tail; and here the centres of reflexion correspond with the several segments. But as the cranial mass develops there is a withdrawal117 of neural substance from the lower parts, and the centres of reflexion are then some way removed from the segments they innervate. In the animal development there is even a greater and greater predominance of the upper portions, so that the175 brain and medulla oblongata are of infinitely118 more importance than the spinal cord.
21. Besides the central group of elements which belong to fixed119 and definite actions, we must conceive these elements capable of variable combinations, like the pieces of colored glass in a kaleidoscope, which fall into new groups, each group having its definite though temporary form. The elements constitute really a continuous network of variable forms. It is to such combinations, and not to fixed circumscribed ganglia, that we must refer the subordinate centres of the axis. We speak of a centre for Respiration120, a centre for Laughing, a centre for Crying, a centre for Coughing, and so on, with as much propriety121 as we speak of a centre for Swallowing or for Walking. Not that in these cases there is a circumscribed mass of central substance set apart for the innervation of the several muscles employed in these actions, and for no other purpose. Each action demands a definite group of neural elements, as each geometric form in the kaleidoscope demands a definite group of pieces of glass; but these same pieces of glass will readily enter into other combinations; and in like manner the muscles active in Respiration are also active in Laughing, Coughing, etc., though differently innervated and co-ordinated.
22. The physiological rank of a centre is therefore the expression of its power of fluctuating combination. The medulla oblongata is higher than the medulla spinalis, because of its more varied combinations; the cerebrum is higher than all, because it has no fixed and limited combinations. It is the centre of centres, and as such the supreme122 organ.
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