New views on baldness : being a treatise on the hair and skin / by H.P. Truefitt.

  • Truefitt, H. P.
Date:
1863
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Credit: New views on baldness : being a treatise on the hair and skin / by H.P. Truefitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is nothing but some cellular tissue, and the dense fibrous membrane which covers tbe skull in common with all other bones. But between them and the skin, and ramifying in the sub-cutaneous fat—sup- plying both the muscles we have named, and the integument which invests them—are to be found arteries, veins, and cutaneous nerves. The external carotid artery furnishes the main supply of arterial blood to the scalp. The internal ARTERIES OF THE SCALP. a. Supra-orbital artery. d. Posterior division of tlie sn- 6. Superficial temporal artery. perficial temporal, c. Anterior division of the su- e. Occipital artery, perficial temporal. carotid artery likewise furnishes some not inconsi- derable branches, but these are neither so numerous nor so important as those derived from the former source.
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