Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AtfGIOLOGY. 4S3 thigh, that this grand trunk might not be weakened by too numerous divifions. It ufually gives fome fmall branches to the neighbouring parts, one of which is given off foon after its origin, and which may be called circumjlexa; as it turns backwards to furnifh the joint of the acetabulum, and fome of the mufcles clofe to the bone, as well as the bone itfelf j it likewife gives other fmall branches. Continuing its courfe in the ham, between the pofierior con- dyle of the femur in company with the vein, it changes its name to the Popliteal*, which is this continuation of the crural artery, firft furnifhing a] large ramus fent to the articulation of the femur with the tibia, and which is called articularis: the main trunk foon divides into two principal divifions, The poferior tibial is one of thefe divifions, which is continued down the pofterior internal part of the tibia, giving the me- dullary artery in its paffage under the flexor minus pedis accompanying the vein, and likewife joining the nerve in its courfe, through a groove formed by the calcaneum (Vid. IV. Jig. i. Plate of the pof- terior Extremities J : it paffes in this groove in com- pany with the perforating tendon of the flexor pedis mufcle. It here gives feveral branches, the prin- cipal of which furnifh the hock anaftamofing by all its rami, but by one more particularly with the an- terior tibial: one branch is continued down on the * The popliteal artery ( is not liable to aneurifm as in the human. I i 2 inner