A description of the arteries of the human body, reduced into the form of tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. ... ; translated from the Latin under the inspection of James Macartney.

  • Adolf Murray
Date:
1801
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Credit: A description of the arteries of the human body, reduced into the form of tables / by Adolphus Murray, M.D. ... ; translated from the Latin under the inspection of James Macartney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ginal diameter till the giving off of the right sub- clavian artery. It ascends behind the pulmonary artery, inclining a little to the right; then it gradually bends towards the left,' in such a man- ner that, having formed its transverse arch, it is seen behind the lungs, on the left side of the bodies of the vertebrae. Supported by these, it descends in a pretty straight course; but, in its passage through the abdomen, it begins to in- cline to the right, till at last it gets on the middle of the bodies of the vertebrae. By the arch of the aorta is understood that part of the artery which is inflected almost in an elliptical manner ; its right side passing first to the right, then to the left; and its left side being nearly straight. The old division of the artery into the ascend- ing transverse, and descending, is now laid aside. In considering the extent of the arch, it may be observed, that it emerges from the heart at the lower margin of the third rib, that it is elevated to the lower margin of the first rib, that its exterior and right side corresponds with the middle of the cartilages of the ribs; and its left side, which is covered by the left lung, with the extremities of the bony parts of the ribs. From the arch of the aorta proceed ]) the two coronari^e cordis, the right and in*