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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    54 ej Descending branch, supplying the iliac flexure, and the lower part of the descending colon. Sometimes it di- vides into three branches, which communicate with each other, and with the preceding artery. Observation. The colica sinistra sends off branches which communicate with the lumbar and spermatic arteries. y) Hamorrhoidalis interna is the name applied to the con* tinuation of the trunk along the posterior surface of the rectum: it sends off, 1) Branches which immediately surround the rectum, and communicate on the front of that intestine : 2) Branches which communicate, towards the termination of the rectum, with the hpernor rho'idalis media, mesicalis ima, or uterina hypogastric*. V) Capsulares, or atrabiliarice, dtxtra 8$ sinistra. These arteries are constant in their destina- tion to the renal capsules, to which they send a great number of branches ; but they vary almost infinitely in their number, size, and course. They may be conveniently arranged in three classes : 1) CapntJares suprema, in number from two to four, are produced by the phrenic arteries^ and, besides sup- plying the capsules, send twigs to the renal fat. 2) Capsulares media arise from the aorta, somewhere be- tween the phrenic and superior mesenteric arteries : they proceed transversely to the capsule, and send off, a] Minute phrenic and adipose arteries ; b) Branches on the right side, to the liver, vena cava, and duodenum ; on the left side, to the surface of the spleen and the mesocolon. They communicate with the proper arteries of these viscera. 3) Capsulares infimce arise from the upper edge of the renal artery, and, when they are large, distribute branches to the adjacent vfccera and renal fat.