A description of the arteries of the human body, reduced into the form of tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. ... ; translated from the Latin under the inspection of James Macartney.

  • Murray, Adolph, 1751-1803.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A description of the arteries of the human body, reduced into the form of tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. ... ; translated from the Latin under the inspection of James Macartney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    bj Internal branch widely distributed to the periosteum of the os frontis, and communicating with the temporalis and frontalis : c) External branch is covered by the orbicularis, and gives twigs to that muscle, and to the corrugator, communi- cating freely with the neighbouring branches. 4) Centralis retina proceeds from the lower part of the trunk, sooner or later, as it passes over the nerve, or even from one of the ciliary arteries ; it plunges into the nerve, and runs along its axis, beautifully ramify- ing on the inner surface of the retina. Some of its branches extend to the corpus ciliare, and form a circle between it and the vitreus humor, which sends vessels to the crystalline. Another of its branches runs along the centre of the vitreus humor to the back of the lens. 5) Ciliaris interna longa. 6) Muscularis inferior arises on the inner side of the optic nerve, and goes under the eye, as far as the lower eyelid. a) Branches to the obliquus minor, the depressor, adducens, optic nerve, and sclerotica : b) Branches to the periofteum of the orbit, communicating with the infraorbitalis : c) Branches to the lower eyelid and conjunctiva. 7) Ciliaris inferior is sometimes wanting. The three ciliary arteries, which have been already mentioned, and which have the names of externa, in- terna, and inferior, take their origin from the oph- thalmica itself, in such a manner that they follow the direction of the external, internal, and lower parts of the optic nerve in a serpentine manner. But there are sometimes six trunks of ciliary arteries, which do not all arise from the ophthalmica itself, but from its nearest branches, and which perforate various parts of the sclerotica, previously dividing into smaller branches. They may be divided into three classes: