A treatise on the structure, functions and diseases of the human sympathetic nerve / by John Fred. Lobstein ; translated from the Latin, with notes, by Joseph Pancoast.

  • Lobstein, Jean Frédéric, 1777-1835.
Date:
1831
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    continuation of the trunk, descends to the lowest part, between the aorta and pulmonary artery, and there with an adjuvant branch from the left principal cardiac, constitutes a considerable plexus, consisting generally of eight small branches: The external of which, appertain to the base of the aorta; the middle to the origin. of the pulmonary artery, whilst the posterior and more impor- tant branches, descend behind the pulmonary artery, and being finally subdivided into six filaments form a sort of secondary plexus, which may be denominated, the left coronary. The following branches from this plexus particularly deserve attention ; 1st. One posterior to the rest, ascending over the origin of the left coronary artery, and passing to the auri- cular appendix of the left sinus of the heart, in the substance of which it is spent unaccompanied by any vascular branches. 2d. A branch of considerable size descending over the base of the left ventricle, which penetrating within is terminated in the papillary muscle of the heart, also without any accompanying artery. 3d. Two principal branches passing down with the left coronary artery. One of the filaments of these branches, leaving the artery, proceeds very evidently into the muscular structure of the left ventricle. §.21. The posterior branch of the cardiac ganglion, apper- tains chiefly to the pulmonary artery ; the right division of which consists of four or five filaments joined together by ner- vous loops ; the left, but of two or three, as an anastomosis is formed with the branches of the left cardiac. §. 22. The collateral branch of the principal cardiac nerve, (§. 18.) proceeds from the deep-seated cardiac plexus; it runs' an equal distance with the preceding nerve, and is con- nected with it behind the arteria innominata, by a transverse anastomosing branch. It afterwards attends the left branch of the pulmonary artery, to which it distributes filaments, and having passed behind it, is finally immersed in a plexus situated above the left ventricle. §. 23. The description of the cardiac nerves of the right side being completed, the entire history of the nerves of the heart