A treatise on the structure, functions and diseases of the human sympathetic nerve / by John Fred. Lobstein ; translated from the Latin, with notes, by Joseph Pancoast.

  • Lobstein, Jean Frédéric, 1777-1835.
Date:
1831
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    the cardiac nerve of each side. But I cannot agree with this illustrious man, when he pronounces the cardiac nerves to be of a very soft, gelatinous character. * I have indeed found them very small and delicate, but not softer than those derived from other sources. But among the cardiac nerves themselves, there appeared to me some difference in regard to the character of the distributing branches, viz. that the deep seated cardiac nerves, situated between the aorta and pulmonary artery, were less round and cylindrical, and less succulent than the rest, but ap- peared rather to be flattened down and agglutinated to the pari- etes of the vessels. § 26. The history of the cardiac nerves now being completed, we will return to the trunk of the intercostal nerve, which we relinquished at the first thoracic ganglion. That ganglion which bears a very large share in the produc- tion of the cardiac plexus, emits, beside the cardiac nerves, some slender filaments to the voluntary muscles; viz. to the inferior part of the longus colli muscle. Another very slender filament appeared to me to proceed to the anterior longitudinal fascia of the vertebral column, and ob- scured by the ligamentous fibres of the latter to penetrate into the bone itself. § 27. The first thoracic ganglion being completed, the inter- costal nerve is again compressed in size, and having passed a short distance, swells out again anew into the second ganglion. In some subjects, however, these two ganglia are inflated into one. t The trunk afterwards descends near the vertebral column, passing deeply along the superior part of the dorsal spine, but emerging a little upwards, near the last thoracic vertebra. In each costal interval, the trunk forms a small ganglion, called from its figure, hordciformc; hence (with the above) twelve ganglia are formed, of which some, like those of the * Loc. Cit. \ xxiv. f This articulation of the ganglia, also occasionally occurs between the first thoracic, and the inferior cervical, an instance of which is given in the plate to which I alluded, page 10. In that plate also will be found a good delineation of the cardiac nerves of the right side; those of the left side being necessarily con- cealed by the position of the body.—Translator.