Note 157 — Chapter VII · THE ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Reading edition
Butzke, Archiv für Psychiatrie, 1872, p. 594, states that the granular substance has the chemical composition of myeline. If this be so, we may suppose the “fibrils of crystallization” to represent the coagulation of the substance which is in solution amid the myeline granules, and corresponds with the axis cylinder of a fibre. I may remark that in almost every good preparation nerve-cells will be found in which, while one process is distinctly granular, another is striated or even fibrillated.