Results The patients main signs were dizziness, vomiting, barylalia, dysbasia and hemiplegia.The focus was mainly in the middle or at the top of the pons.
The brainstem actually has three main components — and I know this is getting to be a lot of vocabulary here — you have the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla oblongata.
One began at last to see that a great many impressions were needed to make very little education, but how many could be crowded into one day without making any education at all, became the pons asinorum of tourist mathematics.