A treatise on surgical anatomy : part the first / by Abraham Colles.

  • Abraham Colles
Date:
1820
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    ANATOMY OF from the descriptions given of the semilimated edge of the fascia lata, by many modern anatomists. Whence The following, I conceive, to be the circum- scription stances which have led to the adoption of the re- of semiiu- ceived opinion:— of fasciage 'n the ^rst place, the fascia looses a good deal lata. of its ligamentous texture, as it crosses the crural Reduced vessels, except in the immediate vicinity of Pou- tSfSciaf Par.ts l^ament. It is, therefore, liable to be destroy- ed in dissecting away the lymphatic glands. Next Crescentic we find, that the pipe of the ligamentous funnel, sheath°of which constitutes the sheath of the femoral vessels, femoral has this cressentic form on its pubic side. When the limb is extended, this sheath is put on the stretch, and not only exhibits this edge more plainly, but imparts this appearance to the superincumbent fascia lata; particularly as the firmness of its tex- Dissection ture is here reduced: besides, it is probable, that while limb ^ie accounts which we have of the falciform edge was ex- of the fascia lata, were drawn from the dissections tended. ma(]e while the limb was in a stretched state, as we know that membranous parts are more easily dissected, while kept tense. Third fy this dissection, you also ascertain positively, insertion how small a share the third insertion of the external oblique™ oblique muscle can have in producing the stran- does not gulation. You see that i^s attachment to the crest thTcrurai 0I* the pubis, does not even extend half way be- rins- tween the spine of the pubis,'and the inner edge of the crural ring. You observe, that it does not expand so much at its insertion into the crest of the pubis, as to reach over to the edge of the crural ring, much less does it constitute this edge itself, as a late writer describes, and delineates it. To crurai refute this error, you have only now to examine the feet 'even crural ring, from within the abdomen; and you whenthird wju fin(} it still perfect in appearance, although removed. Fouparts ligament, and the third insertion be both thrown back upon the thigh. Nay, by passing
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