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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    36/538 (page 10)
    gastrocnemius muscles, and also by the external late- ral ligaments of the knee, ascends and appears on the outer side of the knee, a little above the head of the fibula. From thence it runs along the semilunar car- small branches within the articulation of the knee, and lastly, anastomoses with the superior external articular artery, With the superior internal articular under ie ligament/ofithe patella, and'with the recurrent tibial ee artery. e ee | o The middle articular artery, called by Haller ALY LA, presents many varieties with respect to its ori- gin. For it sometimes arises from the posterior sur= face of the popliteal artery, sometimes it is only a branch of the superior internal articular artery, some- times it comes off from the superior external articular artery.” In whatever way the middle articular artery arises, after a short space, it sinks posteriorly into the ham in the hollow between the condyles of the os femoris; it ramifies upon the crucial ligaments, upon the semzlunar cartilages, and within the knee it anas- tomoses with those branches of the articular arteries which dip into the cavity of the joint, as has been de- _ cribed above. | : 8 § 17. The recurrent tibial articular artery arises from the anterior tibial, a little: after “it has passed through the interosseous ligament, ascends from be- low upwards, and comes out at the knee through the head of the tibialis anterior muscle. Itis ramified upon the periosteum of the tibia, and anastomoses with the external articular arteries which are nearest to it, and likewise unites with the internal articular arteries of - sa