A treatise on aneurism : with numerous additions, and a Memoir on the ligature of the principal arteries of the extremities / by Antonio Scarpa ... ; with engravings ; translated from the Italian, with additional cases and an appendix, by John Henry Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A treatise on aneurism : with numerous additions, and a Memoir on the ligature of the principal arteries of the extremities / by Antonio Scarpa ... ; with engravings ; translated from the Italian, with additional cases and an appendix, by John Henry Wishart. 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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    course from the crural arch to its first division, runs in a triangular cavity formed by the convergence of the iliacus internus, psoas, and pectineus muscles ; it passes over the femoral vein, which lies over it above the crural arch, and it rests upon a layer of dense cellular substance, which fills up this triangu- lar cavity. On the fore part the femoral artery is covered by the aponeurosis of the muscle of the fascia- lata, by some inguinal glands, and by the common in- teguments. The femoral artery, at the distance of one inch, or one and a half, very rarely two inches, below the crural arch, in a well-formed adult, of the ordinary stature, divides into two principal branches, the superficial and profunda femoral arteries. § 4>. The superficial femoral artery gives off, - in the first place, the superior external1 pudic artery. This artery, situated a little below the common integu- ments, crosses the heads of the pectineus and gracilis muscles; it then gives branches to the inguinal glands, to the scrotum, to the fat about the pubes, and lastly, anastomoses with some ramifications of the epigastric artery. { 5. At a short distance below the origin of the superior external pudic artery, the superficial femoral gives off the inferior external pudic artery,2 which, in the same manner as the superior, passes across on the heads of the pectineus, adductor longus femoris and gracilis muscles, and then is reflected upon the skin of the scrotum, and on the integuments of the penis, along which it extends as far as the prepuce. This artery gives off several branches to the cellular membrane, to 1 The first inguinal pudic. * The second inguinal pudic. A 2