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LONDON. Royal Society, May I.—Dr. E. Lindon Mellus gave the results of experimental lesions of the cortex cerebri in the Bonnet Monkey. The experiments were confined to the left hemisphere, and consisted in the removal of minute portions of the cortex (generally about 16 sq. mm.) representing the centres for movements of the hallux and thumb, as well as several centres within the facial area. The animals recovered from the operation without any sign of sepsis, and were killed from ten to thirty-five days after the operation, the brains and cords hardened in Müller's fluid, and stained by the Marchi method. Numerous association fibres, both coarse and fine, connecting the lesion with the surrounding cortex, were found degenerated. These were always most numerous in the immediate neighbourhood of the lesion, and mostly distributed to the two central convolutions.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 52, 431–432 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052431b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/052431b0