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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    This Plate represents the situation of the Heart and Aorta in the Body of a Man 24 years of Age. 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6. Superior ribs of | both sides, cut. 7, 7. Clavicles cut. 8,8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8. Intercostal muscles. 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9. Great pectoral muscles. 10, 10. Anterior scaleni muscles. 11, 11. Sternal portion of the sterno-cleido mas- toid muscle, cut. 12, 12. Clavicular portion of the sterno-mastoid muscle divided. 13, 13 Thyroid cartilage. 14, 14. Sterno-hyoid muscles, cut. 15, 15. Sternothyroid muscles divided. 16, 16., Omo-hyoid muscles divided. 17, 17. Thyroid gland. 18, Trachea. 19, 19, 19, 19- Lungs. 20, 20,, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20. Pleurae. 21,21, 21, 21, 21, 21. Pericardium laid open, in which the heart is seen. 22. Common trunk of the right subclavian and jugular veins. 23. Common trunk of the left subclavian and jugular veins, or thoracic jugular vein. 24. Trunk of the vena cava superior. 25. Trunk of the same vein descending into the right sinus, the pericardium being turned back. 26. Right sinus or atrium cordis dextrum. 27. Right auricle. 28. Right or pulmonary ventricle-. 29- Pulmonary artery arising from the arterial cone of the right ventricle. 30. Right branch of the pulmonary artery pro- ceeding to the lung under the arch of the aorta. 31. Left branch of the pulmonary artery. 32. Left auricle. 33. Left or aortic ventricle. 34. 34, 34. Branches of the right coronary artery of the heart which the pericardium covers. 35. Anterior branch of the left coronary artery of the heart running in the hollow between the ventricles to the apex of the heart. 36. Trunk of the aorta ascending betw’een the pulmonary artery and the right sinus. 37. Arch of the aorta.3 38. Common trunk of the right subclavian and carotid arteries, anonymous trunk, or ar- teria innominata. The length of the arteria innominata varies much in different individuals; I have seen it longer in tall people and shor- ter in those with a short neck. 39- Right carotid artery. 40. Right subclavian artery. -f- Vertebral artery. 41. Trunk of the inferior thyroid artery. a Haller (de partium corporis humani praecipuarum fabrica el funetionibus T. 4>, p. 7-) speaks in the following manner of the branches arising from the arch of the aorta, “ In man alone, of all animals I have yet examined, three distinct branches have “ arisen from the convexity of the great arch, so that, correctly speaking, we cannot use the word ascending aorta, 't he first of “ these trunks is the right subclavian, which gives off the right carotid ; the second the left carotid ; and the third the left “ subclavian of the same side. ’’ I have distinctly observed the same origin of the vessels arising from the arch of the aorta in the simia aethiops, sciurea, and capucina, in the hedge-hog, mole, rat, and mouse, beaver, three-toed sioth, and dolphin of the ancients. Daubenton has seen this disposition of the vessels in the simia sciurea, (Bulfon Hist. Natur. T. 15. p. 74.) capucina, (ib. p. 57.) rosalia, (ib. p. 113 ) appella, (T. 15, p. 49.) lemur tardigradus, (ib. T. 13. p. 217.) racoon, (ib. T. 8. p. 348,). two- toed sloth, (ib. p. 50.) two toed ant-eater, (ib. T. 10. p. 171.) hainpster, (ib. X. 8. p. 130.) mus decumanus, (ib. T. if. p. 212,) and beaver, (ib. p. 316.) Ducrotay de Blainville (Dissertation sur la place, que la famille des Ornithorinques et des Echidnes doit occuper dans lex series naturelles, Paris 1812, p. 34.) has taken notice of the distribution of vessels in the ornithorynchi aiid echidnae. .1. F. Meckel has seen it in the three-toed sloth, (Beitrage zur vergleiehenden anatomie, B. 2. Heft. 1. S. 130.) and two-toed ant- eater, (Deutsch. Archiv fur die Physiologie, B. 5. S. 59.) But it is to be remarked, that the origin of the trunks arising from the arch of the aorta is subject to vary in mammalia as well as in men ; for in the simia capucina and racoon I have seen only two branches proceeding from the arch, the first and greater of which consisted of the arteria anonyma, the posterior and smaller of the left subclavian,