Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTERIES OF THE HEAD. EXPLANATION OF PLATE IF, Finding in the head of this black the most common and regular distribution of the branches of the Carotid Artery, I took this sketch from it. It is an etching, without a touch of the graver. The appearance of the eye and mouth is neither like the Uving or the dead, but those accustomed to anatomy M'ill perhaps recognise the turgescence of the Injected Head. The neck and part of the face is dissected. A. The Trachea, or windpipe. B. Muscles of the fore part of the Tliroat, viz. Sterno-Hyoi- deus and Sterno-thyroideus. c. The Thykoid Gland.* * Thyroid Gland. Th\s is one of the glandular bodies the nature and function of which we are entirely ignorant. But it is important to know tliat it swells with the irregularities of the female system ; that it is often enlarged and yet haimless; that it is the seat of the Goitres j that it is sometimes scirrhous and hard, and the cause of suffocation.