A description of the arteries of the human body : reduced to tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. R. and O. professor of anatomy and surgery at Upsal ; translated from the original by Archibald Scott.

  • Murray, Adolph, 1751-1803.
Date:
1816
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Credit: A description of the arteries of the human body : reduced to tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. R. and O. professor of anatomy and surgery at Upsal ; translated from the original by Archibald Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ments to undertake the translation. In performing which task, I have constantly endeavoured to render faithfully the meaning of my author, and to do it as clearly as the idioms of the two languages would admit. I have ventured, however, to change the names of a few muscles for those synonymes by which they are better known in this country: and where a muscle was expressed by a single epithet, as profundus interosseus, I have preferred the Latin to the English name; as the former is not only equally familiar, but) when it is a noun of the second declension, distinguishes also the muscle from the artery by its termination. As Professor Murray, in describing the arteries of the hand, has substituted the terms Radial, Ulnar; Voral, and Dorsal, for the vague and relative terms External, Internal, Anterior, and Posterior, I have extended his mode of expression to the foot; and instead of Internal and External Side, have substituted the terms Tibial and Fibular. For this reason, the word Peroneal, when applied to an artery, has been rejected, as being of Greek origin, and as not entering so properly into compounds with the Latin terms. Where he has used sometimes more, and some- times fewer epithets, in describing the artery, I have regularly, where there was no danger of am- biguity, preferred the lesser number, and have