Plates of the arteries of the human body ... / after Frederic Tiedemann ; engraved by E. Mitchell, under the superintendency of Thomas Wharton Jones, surgeon ; the explanatory references translated from the original Latin, with additional notes, by Dr. Knox.

  • Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Plates of the arteries of the human body ... / after Frederic Tiedemann ; engraved by E. Mitchell, under the superintendency of Thomas Wharton Jones, surgeon ; the explanatory references translated from the original Latin, with additional notes, by Dr. Knox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Figure I. A. The aorta. B. The arteria innominata. 1. Right subclavian artery. 2. Right carotid artery. 3. Left carotid. 4. Left subclavian artery. 5. Left vertebral artery arising from the arch of aorta. C. Thoracic part of the aorta. I saw this disposition of the vessels in the body of a man forty years old ; it is like that described by Walter.* Figure II. # This very rare variety occurred to me whilst dissecting the body of a young person aged twenty-two. -f* A. Ascending trunk of the aorta. 1. Right subclavian artery. B. Trunk common to the two carotids 2. Right carotid. 3. Left carotid. 4. Left subclavian. C. Descending aorta. * Museum Anatomicum, p. 237, No 1447. f This origin of the branches from the arch of the aorta is proper to the elephant.—See Cuvier, (1. c. Vol. 4. p. 243.) Figure III. It is not unusual for the number of trunks arising from the arch of the aorta to be in- creased. This is effected, partly, if the right subclavian and right carotid arteries form no anonymous trunk [arteria innominata), but arise separately, partly, if those branches which are commonly subdivisions of larger trunks arise from the arch of the aorta itself; thus four, five, or even six trunks may come off from it. A, B. Arch of the aorta. 1. Right subclavian artery. 2. Right carotid. 3. Left carotid. 4. Left subclavian. Heister,1 Winslow,1 Ballay,3 Neu- bauer,4 Nevun,5 Ryan,6 J. F. Meckel,7 Zagorsky,8 and Fleischmann,9 have seen such a distribution of branches arising from the arch of the aorta. 1 Compendium Anatomicum. Not®, p. 123, in a female body. 2 1. c. p. 364. 3 Journal de Medicine. Ann. 1738. Mois Avril. * 1. c. $ 14. s Edinburgh Med. Commentaries. Dec. 2. Vol. 0. 1. c. p 3. ^ Patholog. Anat. B. 2. Abth. I. S. 107. 8 Mem. de l’Academ. de 1‘etersbourg, T. 1. o Leichen—Oeffnungen, S. 236. Daubenton (1. c. T. 13. p. 420,) says, that four branches were found arising from the arch of the aorta in the trichechus rosmarus ;* that they agree with the above however is not quite evident. * This expression has been employed by different naturalists to designate different animals, as the walrus, the dngong.and the lamcntine.