Outlines of a system of medico-chirurgical education : containing illustrations of the application of anatomy, physiology, and other sciences to the principal practical points in medicine and surgery / by Thomas Turner.

Turner, Thomas, 1793-1873.

Date:: [1824]

Credit: Outlines of a system of medico-chirurgical education : containing illustrations of the application of anatomy, physiology, and other sciences to the principal practical points in medicine and surgery / by Thomas Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$sian Hospitals that could induce me to forsake the method adopted hy the majority of English Surgeons. It is not Pott's method that we adhere to, further, than in putting the limh in a state of half flexion: to make it rest horizontally, on its outer side, (which was another part of his practice, in fractm-es of the thigh,) has, for just and proper reasons, heen abandoned. Having dissected the muscles, and applied a knowledge of their action on the hones, and joints, to practical purposes; the student will trace the main arteries, and their branches, the principal veins, the anterior crural, and sacro sciatic nerves, and obserVe their relative position with respect to the muscles, to the bones, and to each other. The abdominal aorta terminates at the fourth lumbar vertebra, by dividing into the common iliac arteries. Each common iliac passes obliquely out- wards, aiid downwards, and just at the sacro iliac symphysis, divides into the internal and external iliac branches. The internal iliac artery is principally distiibuted to the pelvic viscera; but there are branches, viz.=^ the obturator, glutgeal, and ischiatic, which supply the muscles of the thigh, and are important anasto- mosing vessels when the external iliac is obliterated. The external iliac ai-tery descends under Pou-$