Anatomical plates of the arteries of the human body, accurately coloured, and reduced from the Iconis of Haller. With a concise explanation / [Albrecht von Haller].

  • Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Anatomical plates of the arteries of the human body, accurately coloured, and reduced from the Iconis of Haller. With a concise explanation / [Albrecht von Haller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ferus to the anterior mufcle of the mal- leus. The Small Meningeal Artery—running to- wards the bafis of the fkull, parallel to the middle meningeal. It gives in its courfe branches to the external pterygoid, to the pa- latine mufcles, and to the third branch of the fifth pair of nerves, It then paffes through the foramen ovale, to the membranes of the receptacle, between the pterygoid procefs and the circumflex mufcle. The Middle Meningeal Artery—paffing in a ftraight dire&ion to the foramen fpinofum, where it enters this hole, and is there fo. ramified upon the furface of the dura mater, that fome branches are carried tranfverfely under the temporal bone to. the occipital, others to the pofterior (inus of the falx, while others bend a little more anteriorly. All of thefe have frequent anaftomofings with one another, as alfo with the pofterior meningeal branches rifing from the vertebral and: occipi- tal arteries, and with the anterior branches from the ophthalmic. Before reaching the foramen ipinofum, it fometimes give branches to the fphenoid bone, and through that bone