The student's guide to surgical anatomy : being a description of the most important surgical regions of the human body and intended as an introduction to operative surgery / by Edward Bellamy.

  • Bellamy, Mr. (Edward)
Date:
1873
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Credit: The student's guide to surgical anatomy : being a description of the most important surgical regions of the human body and intended as an introduction to operative surgery / by Edward Bellamy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blished by means of its intercostal branch inosculating witli the first aortic intercostal, assisted by the inter- nal niammarv and intercostal arteries, inosculating with the long tlioracic, superior thoracic, and acro- mio-thoracic, and by the inosculation between the superior thoracic and deep epigastric. SURGICAL RELATIONS OF THE CESOPHAGUS IN THE NECK. The oesophagus is occasionally the seat of opera- tion, such as for the removal of some foreign body, of the passing of bougies in cases of stricture, or in- troducing the tube of a stomach-pump. The opera- tion of cesopliagotomy is required but rarely, but it may be had recourse to in such cases as impaction of foreign bodies, when the substance can neither be pulled out through the mouth, nor pushed downwards into the stomach, or in such a case as where a sub- stance might be removed through a longitudinal wound in the cesophagus, but could not be drawn through the more constricted portion of the tube— as, for instance, a set of false teeth, &c. In the neck, it commences as a constriction below the pha- rynx, having at this point the cricoid cartilage in front, and the fifth cervical vertebra behind it. Just at first, it lies in the mesial line of the body, but as it approaches the root of the neck it inclines towards the left side. Belations.—In front of it lies the tracliea, and after it tends to the left side, the left lobe of thyroid body, and the thoracic duct. Bcliind, the cervical vertebree and left longus colli muscle.