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Excerpt from A Treatise on Amaurosis and Amaurotic Affections
Pineal gland and peduncles. Behind and beneath the fornix we find a small body of a grayish colour and a conical shape, about the size ofa pea, named the pineal gland. It is placed above the tubercula quadrigemina 011 which its base rests. In the adult human subject it frequently contains some small calculous bodies, which are very hard, and very much resemble coarse grains of sand it consisted, when first formed, of two masses, which sabse quently unite into one. The pineal gland is connected at its fore part to the optic thalami by two medullary cords, its peduncles, being otherwise perfectly isolated from the cerebral structure.
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