A positive answer to this topic was given in 1882 by prof. N. M. Popov in his dissertation: "Materials for science on acute mellitic toxic origin". He asserts that, first of all, the nerve cells (of the spinal cord) come to a state of turbid swelling and vacuolization. Both of these processes can lead them to complete destruction: the first, through the transition to a bland, spreading formation, the second, through an increase in the vacuole. Finally, in the late period, there is a pigment atrophy, which destroys all the cells, the improvement from the previous changes. The intensity of the process is determined by the greater or lesser proximity of the vessel .... In all likelihood, the author says, the brain also changes here. With the same positivity, the suffering of the peripheral nervous system is excluded in this work.