Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a fmall ramus furnifhing the firft, fecond, and third intercoftals ; but ufually they are both confiderable branches, giving ramifications to the pericardium, to the mufcles under the fcapula, and the neck, and generally furnifhing the firft two or three inter- coftals. The cervicals, are two pair on each fide in fome inftances, in others the dorfal and the anterior are one and the fame ; in others, the pofterior and the bronchial are fimilar and united. The left cervi- cals ufually arife from the left divifion of the anterior aorta, fometimes in one trunk, at others in two, pafling between the firft and fecond, and the fecond and third ribs, and are diftributed to the cervical ligament, and to the mufcles of the neck and withers: fometimes the firft intercoftal arifes from one of thefe. The right cervicals arife from the right divifion of the aorta, and fometimes give the right dorfal, or when that is wanting, the trunks of the three or four firft intercoftals : they likewife give rami to the cefophagus, mediaftinum, and fur- rounding parts j frequently likewife the right bron- chial arifes from this fource. ’The vertebrols are two important arteries, the right arifing from the right divifion of the anterior aorta, after thofe we have defcribed ; and the left from the left divifion: they are given off oppofite the firft rib, and pafs under the tranfverfe procefs of the firft dorfal vertebra, infinuating themfelves between the fixth and feventh cervical, and are continued