The London dissector, or, System of dissection : practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera of the human body, as they appear on dissection, with directions for their demonstration.

Date:
1816
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Credit: The London dissector, or, System of dissection : practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera of the human body, as they appear on dissection, with directions for their demonstration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    dial of some anatomists) passes from the axilla behind the os humeri, making a spiral turn round the bone to reach the oirside o? the arm. It first descends between the brachials externus and short head of the biceps extensor cubiti, accompanying the arteria profunda humeri superior, and passing deep into the flesh of the arm. Before it makes this turn, it gives branches to the muscles, also a cuta- neous branch, which descends on the inside of the arm. From the back-part of the arm the great trunk of the nerve is reflected spirally forwards. It is seen emerging betwixt the supinator longus and brachialis internus, seated deep and close to the bone. It descends betwixt these muscles, keeping close to the edge of the supinator longus. Immediately after passing the fold of the arm, it sends off a nerve, which descends, superficial, upon the radial edge of the fore- arm, as far as the wrist; and, at this point, the trunk of the muscular nerve divides itself into two branches. The first, a large branch, perforates the supinator brevis, and supplies the extensor muscles of the hand and fingers. The second branch accompanies the su- pinator longus down the fore arm, and near the wrist turns under the tendon of tint muscle, over the edge of the radius. It then divides into several branches which ramify on the back of the wrist, thumb, and fore finger. (7.) The Internal Cutaneous Nerve de- scends, superficial, along the inside of the arm and fore-arm. It was described among the cutaneous nerves of the arm. THE END. Printed bj R. and R. Gilbert, St John's Square, Londea.