... pressure against the sides of the unyielding canal, as musteventually intercept the influence of the brain upon the inferior portion of the medullary column, and upon the parts on which the nerves ... andanother to long lying on the damp ground; the others have been unable to suggest any circumstance whatever,which, in their opinion, could be considered as having given origin, or disposed, to the ... compression in the lingual and brachial nerves, as high as their exit from the basis of the cranium and the vertebræ of the neck; but they appeared to us more compact than they commonly are,...