HISTNEUR-L: The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum

internode and osmotic

• Date:   Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:30:12 -0500
• To:   histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Joel Vilensky <vilensk@ipfw.edu>
• Subject:   internode and osmotic
• Message-ID:   se1d412d.089@gw.ipfw.edu

I am working on a 1909 paper by Victor Horsley and I am trying to make 
sense of two sentences.  

1.  When speaking of a patient after brain surgery, Horsley says that 
the patient could not localize a touch anywhere below the wrist within 
the distance of one "internode."  

Anybody know what he means by "internode."  Could he mean node of 
Ranvier.  Hard to imagine that Horsley could localize to that small a 
distance, but maybe?

2.  Horsley observed reduction of sensibility in the limbs after 
lesions of the limbic lobe, a region which Ferrier had suggested might 
be a field of sensory representation other than "osmotic."

Anybody have any idea of what he means by "osmotic."

Thanks.

Joel Vilensky
vilensk@ipfw.edu