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ssss1. “Guy’s Hospital Reports,” 1858. Case xvii.

Still continuing, Dr. Jones draws attention to the anatomical fact of the remarkably close manner in which “the different nerve centres, or parts of a nerve centre, are connected by commissural fibres,” and how, “from a pathological point of view, the same connexion is often very manifest. The general exhaustion induced by excess of venery,” and other cases, “are examples which show how excessive consumption of nerve force in one part weakens it also in others; and this can only be adequately explained by the intricate commissural connexion between the various centres.”

The truth of all these views is well exemplified, as Dr. Kidd has stated, in cases of epilepsy, which “may originate only in irritation of bad teeth acting on the brain, or worms irritating the nerves of the stomach, and so on as to other peripheral irritations; the chief skill being to find out the spot from which the irritation radiates.”

A case is also quoted by Dr. Jones, in the Lumleian Lectures, as having occurred in the practice of Mr. Castle, of New York, where diseased teeth produced paraplegia, which soon ceased after their removal.