Monro, Alexander: Observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system: illustrated with tables (Edinburgh [u.a.], 1783)

NERVOUS SYSTEM. 31
S E C T. V.
Beyond the ganglia, or after the anterior and posterior bundles of ner-
vous fibres are intermixed, the external anterior and posterior branches of
spinal nerves are detached, and, at the same places, connections are form-
ed with the great sympathetic nerves *. The nature of which I mall af-
terwards attempt to explain.
SECT VI.
In like manner, the accessory nerve, which comes out behind the liga-
mentum denticulatum, takes its rise partly from the side of the spinal mar-
row, and partly, by filaments, is connected to the posterior bundle of some
of the spinal nerves -s.

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* See Tab. X. q^ R. s.
f See Tab. X. Fig. 2.------Winssow, S. 6. § 143.------And Haller, EI. Phys. L. x. S. 6. p. 242.
make mention of filaments added to the accessory, from the posterior branches of the cervical nerves.