HISTOLOGIC CHANGES IN THE BRAIN IN CASES OF FATAL INJURY TO THE HEAD

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Abstract
In a series of studies concerned with pathologic changes in the various cytologic elements of the brain following injuries to the head, of which this study constitutes a unit, we have kept two objectives in view. The first, and perhaps the most important, has been an attempt to explain the residual symptoms which so often persist after an injury to the head. The second, and more academic, objective was an attempt to discover the finer details of such alterations which occur in these various elements as a result of cranio-cerebral trauma. By a study of such changes it was hoped to shed some light on the biologic behavior of these cells and fibers in response to physical injury. As these studies have drawn to a close, it has become evident that we have been more successful in the attainment of the second than of the first of these objectives. In