A manual of operative surgery / By Lewis A. Stimson.

  • Lewis Atterbury Stimson
Date:
1885
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Credit: A manual of operative surgery / By Lewis A. Stimson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    me<lian line ami the extremity of the great liorn (Fig. 46, A). Divide the skin and phitysnia, pushing the super- ficial veins aside, and tlien the cervical a])(>neurosis, which may be very tliin. Raise tlie submaxillary ghmd, find tlic posterior belly of the digastric, its attachment to the hyoid bone, the posterior border of the mylo-hyoid, and the hypo- glossal nerve accompanied by the lingual vein. Draw the ' Fia. 47. r>_ Pucial Veiv 'lllllr^ ■ / Facial Art. Ilyo^lossHS JMylo-hyoid Digastric Us Ilyoidts Anatomical relations of the lingual and facial arteries. (Tillaux.) hyoid bone slightly downward with a blunt hook fixed in the lower angle of the triangle bounded by these organs, and then, pinching up the fibres of the hyoglossus with a pair of forceps, divide them carefully along a line parallel to the nerve, and midway between it and the bone. As the cut fibres retract, the artery is disclosed below them ; sepa- rate it from its vein, if there be one, and pass the ligature. LK4ATURE OF THE FACIAL ARTERY. The facial artery crosses the inferior maxilla just in front of the anterior edge of the masseter, from which it is sepa-
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