Note 173 — Chapter VII · THE ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Reading edition
The suggestion in the text has since received a striking confirmation in the observations of Sigmund Mayer on the regeneration of nerves. The nerve when divided rapidly undergoes fatty degeneration, which is succeeded by a transformation of the myeline and axis cylinder into a homogeneous mass; in this resolved pulp new longitudinal lines of division appear, which subsequently become new fibres, and new nuclei are developed in the remains of the untransformed substance.—Archiv für Psychiatrie, Bd. VI. Heft II.