The anatomy of the human bones, nerves, lacteal sac and duct / By Alexander Monro.

  • Alexander Monro
Date:
1776
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Credit: The anatomy of the human bones, nerves, lacteal sac and duct / By Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moved. When thefe membranes are cut off or broken, they collapfe into fuch a {mall fpace,. that the furface of the petiofleum feems {mooth and equal. When we attempt to tear off the periofteum from bones, we fee a great number of white threads produced from the membrane into them; and, after a fuccefsful injeGtion of the — arteries with a red-liquor, numerous veffels © are not only feen om the periofteum (a) but moft of the fibres fent from the membrane to the bone, fhew themfelves to be veffels entering it, with the injeGted liquor in them; and when they are broken, by tearing off the periofteum, the furface of the bone is almoft covered with » red points, The veins correfponding to thefe arteries are fometimes to be feen in fubje&ts that die with their veflels full of blood; though fuch nume- rous ramifications of ‘them, asof the arteries, can feldom be demonftrated, becaufe few of them’ naturally contain coloured liquors, and fuch liquors can difficultly be imje&ted: into them. ‘This however is fometimes done (4). The great fenfibility of the periofteum in the diene -feated fpecies of paronychia, in exoffofes, nodi, tophi, and gummata, from a les vene- _ rea, or whenever this membrane is in an infla- F med ftate, is a fufficient proof that it is well pro- = vided with nerves , though they are perhaps too 7 fall to be traced upon it; and therefore one cannot wo Ruyfch. Epitt. 5. tab, 6. fig. r.-2. epift. 8. tab. 9. fies . 6) Sue traitéd’ofteologic traduit de H Angler de Mr, sede oe -70. Note in page 9.
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