Jubilee Chronicon, a Valedictory Address Delivered on the Occasion of Retiring from the Chair of the Medico-Chirurgical Society

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... why the heart of the frog ceases to pulsate if this region be injured. The ganglia are also found in the track of the anterior and posterior coronary arteries, and that of the larger vessels generally. They are, however, not confined to these situations, and exist in quantity on the surface and in the substance of the heart, as already stated. The number of nerves and ganglia seen in Dr Pettigrew's dissections greatly exceeds that usually represented in books. This is especially true of the ganglionic masses found on the coronary sinus and grooves. The ganglia, according to Dr Pettigrew, are crowded with unipolar and bipolar nerve-cells. The nerve dissections embraced, among others, specimens of the cardiac nerves of man, the horse, ox, sheep, the cat, rabbit, etc. The nerves are all in situ; and, in this respect, Dr Pettigrew's dissections differ widely from the cardiac-nerve dissections of Dr Eobert Lee, deposited, we understand, in the Museum of St George's Hospital, London. VT. PATHOLOGY. Pathology, including Etiology--or our knowledge of the Facts of Disease--is that ring of the series already referred to, touching at its inner circumference Physiology, and within which are disposed in successive rings, Anatomy, Zoology, Chemistry, and Animal Physics; while, at the outer circumference of Pathology are, in succession, concentric circles of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Surgery, Medicine, Obstetrics, and Medical Jurisprudence. Pathology may be regarded as the indelible distinction of our Society. Discountenancing the false idea that we have more to do with the uses of things than with their nature, Abercrombie--one of our founders--impressed by his example, followed to this day, the supreme value and importance of exhibiting Morbid Specimens at our me...