A treatise on the anatomy, pathology, and surgical treatment of aneurism, with engravings / by Antonio Scarpa... ; Translated from the Italian with notes by John Henry Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1808
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Credit: A treatise on the anatomy, pathology, and surgical treatment of aneurism, with engravings / by Antonio Scarpa... ; Translated from the Italian with notes by John Henry Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATISE ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY, AND SURGICAL TREATMENT, OF ANEURISM. CHAPTER ‘1. OF THE FEMORAL AND POPLITEAL ARTERIES, Lue anterior or external iliac, a little before it passes out of the pelvis under the crural arch, gives off the epi- gastric artery, which ascends obliquely from without, forwards and upwards, towards the lower extremity of the rectus muscle of the abdomen. In the male, as it passes near to the crural arch, it gives off, to the spermatic cord, a branch which anastomoses with the spermatic artery, and is dispersed on the cre- master muscle, and on the vaginal coat of the testicle. The epigastric then ascends behind the rectus muscle, having previously, in some cases, given off the ob- turator artery. Several small branches of the epigas- tric artery, go to the integuments of the abdomen, and to the sheath of the rectus muscle; and several others sink into the other muscles of the abdomen, as well as into the rectus. Among these, a large brancti’ ascends along the internal margin of the rectus muscle A