Excerpt from Archives of Medicine, Vol. 10: A Bi-Monthly Devoted to Original Communications on Medicine, Surgery, and Their Special Branches Now, if a cross vertical section of the cerebral hemispheres be SO made (see Fig. 2) as to include the substance of the thalamus and the lenticular nucleus, it will be perceived that the peripheral outline of these two masses of gray matter may be compared to a square; and that a diagonal band running from the outer and upper corner to the lower and inner corner of this square corresponds to the Situation of the compressed portion of the internal capsule, ' which is included between these ganglia. Above the level of the basal ganglia, the fibres of the internal capsule radiate to join certain convolutions or gyri which will be enumer ated later. Thus it is that the fibres of the internal capsule appear in most of the cross-sections of the middle zone of the cerebrum to bear a resemblance to the handle and sticks of a Japanese fan; the handle being the constricted portion between the corpus striatum and the optic thalamus, and the diverging fibres being located within the medullary centre of the cerebral hemisphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.