Contributions to physiological and pathological anatomy : containing the observations made at the Philadelphia anatomical rooms during the session of 1824-25 / by John D. Godman.

  • Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Contributions to physiological and pathological anatomy : containing the observations made at the Philadelphia anatomical rooms during the session of 1824-25 / by John D. Godman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been found this season so frequently as to incline me very strongly to believe that some modification of this arrangement occurs as often as that usually described, below the bend of the arm. In one or two instances, the bifurca- tion took place as high as the tendon of the pec- toralis mi tor, in others, opposite the insertion of the coraco brachialis, and in one case the bifur- cation was about two inches above the condyles of the humerus. Of seven instances of high bi- furcation, occurring within the month of No- vember, of the humeral artery, in but one did the artery pass down external to the sheet of tendi- nous fascia, connected with the tendon of the biceps flexor cubiti. This, and my former ex- perience, is entirely opposed to the statement of the celebrated John Bell, who inferred, from what he had seen, that when the artery bifur- cates above the ordinary place, the vessels pass to the forearm, external to the expansion at- tached to the biceps. We wait, however, for a more extended experience to enable us to ascer- tain positively whether Mr. Bell's rule may not be the most general. The third head of the biceps was found, dur- ing November, in one instance, rising from the middle of the os humeri, at the inner edge of the bone, about four inches above the ex-