Unpublished paper, 'On the dentate body of the cerebellum' by William Brinton

Description

Brinton explains that the corpus dentatum has generally been described and recognised as a wavy line or lamina of grey matter, which is seen in certain sections of the crus of the cerebellum, and contains fibres apparently derived from the restiform body, and the 'processus e cerebello ad testes'. Reil’s account, with some vague and conflicting details, gives it a more definitely tubular form, although he is apparently not certain of the continuity of its upper and lower layers posteriorly. Brinton explains these somewhat varying descriptions by the physical characters of the tissues investigated, and by the condition — fresh or hardened in spirit— of the specimens examined by different anatomists.

Followed by four pages of figures of the cerebellum.

Subject: Neuroscience

Received 27 May 1852. Communicated by William Wood.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the dentate body of the cerebellum'.

Reference number

AP/33/6

Earliest possible date

20 May 1852

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

17 pages

Format

Drawing
Manuscript