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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    an easy and abundant communication, both with the superior arterial branches of the periosteum coming from the external circumflex artery, and with those derived from the arteries situated on the posterior sur- face of the bone under the vastus externus muscle. This vascular plexus, distributed abundantly on the pe- riosteum of the femur, at last, in the neighbourhood of the knee, forms repeated and distinct anastomoses with the popliteal artery, by means of the branch which it gives to the periosteum covering the bone in the vicinity of the condyles, and likewise by means of the superior articular arteries of the knee- B2f