The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Ambroise Paré
Date:
1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •y lRACr.5. 45 Concerning the Newer. CHAP. V 1. ■' Concerning the Nerves which are difiributed through the Arms. Hofe nerves being noW enumerated, which are dirperfed tlirougli' the mufcles of the three bellyes, and the parts contained in them ; it re¬ mains that W'edefcribe thofe alfo, which are propagated through the artiM, or extream parts of the body. Here we meet with them firft, which are diftributed through the arms, whereof there are fix pairs com¬ monly fet down by Anatomifts arifing from the fifth, fixth, and feventh pair of the nerves, that come out of the marrow of the neck, and from the firft, and fécond of thofe, which ilfue out of the cheft. Thcfe nerves go Out through the common holes . of the rack-bones, on both fides, and prefently after their going out arc united one among another with their forwarder, and greater branches, byand by are feparated one from another again, and joined'again, and finally feparated, fo that they Icem to make out a certain net-like texture, which cannot be better likened then to thofe ftrings of Cardinals hats. This implication of nerves goes forth under the clavicle, or coller- bone, about that place, where the axillary veins and arteries go out of the hollow of the cheft, and from this all the nerves of the arm take their originali. But their ^ rife is very uncertain by reafon of their being fo knit together, wherefore wee- in our relation of them will rather follow the footfteps of other men, then our own obferŸations, left wee Ihoiild feem to afFcft new opinions raftily, and without neceiftty. ''Ihe fîrJÎ7ierve then i. which is carried to the arm, is a double propagation, namely the third, and fourth of the fore branch of the fifth pair of the neek. For tbe atm. branch [tab. i. Y] is carried to the ftcond mufclc of the upper part of the arm cal¬ led Veltoides^ and to the skin that lies upon it ; the other [ tab, i. b ] goes toward the neck of the ftioulder-blade, where it is cleft into two branches-j the former of which f tab. i. c] goes into the nmfcle Deltoïdes ^ where it arifes from the collar¬ bone; the latter [tab. i. d] is inlerted into the fourth pair of the mufcles of the bone hyoïdes called coracohyoideum, and from thence affords a little branch to the upper fiiperfcapular mufcle, and the Deltoïdes, at what place it arifes from the fpinc of the fhoulder-blade. 7hk nerve runs out through the higher fide of the arm ; but tbe other ve 'a.rc carried through the arm-pit into the arm, and in the fame are fcattered into more ranches. 7be jecondnerve [tab. is thicker, and takes it originali from that net-like compli-The fécond’ cation, of which we (pake , yet, from what nerve cannot be evident enough. This is 1“ pregrefle; carried down through the middle, and fore-part of the arm ; iilto which it enters under the firft bender of the cubit, or the double-headed mufcle, at that part, where its two heads are united one with the other, and where the tendons are inferred both of the pcftorall mufcle, that leads the arm forward to the breaft, and of the Deltoïdes, that lifts it up. Being hid then under this mufcle it fends forth two propagations [tab. i. ti] one ., of each fide, which enters into the two heads of the mufcle bkep ; and after that about the middle of the length of the upper part of the arm, going under the fame double- headed mufcle, it ftioots forth another (prig i. f] by means whereof it is joined with the third nerve and from thence defeending it diftributes in its progrefle a furcle [tab. i.fl^ from its outfide to the head of the longer of the two mufclcs of the radius or wand, that turns the palm of the hand downward. When it is now come to the ben¬ ding of the cubit, being led to the fleftiy membrane, near to the outfide of the tendon of the faid double-headed mufcle, it is diftributed into the skin, being divided into two' branclicSjof which one is the outer,the other the inner;that is the flenderer,this the thick- er.7bf outer then [tab. i.i] being carried down a good way with a branch of the Cepha-. lick vein through the infide of the cubit, is diftributed i. to the fccond'bone of T;.hc ourer. the thumb. I’he ïnnerhra.nch.[tab. i. k] is fubdivided under the common vein of/the The iancijs arm, or the middle one, called Mediana, into two branches, the ««ter whereof [tab. t.] going on obliquely under the skin leaving the vein goes away toward the radius as far as tothe wreft . buttbemwerr^/^b. i-i'lbcingfaftencdtotheinnerbranch of the Cephalick- vein,whcn it goes more obliquely, in the region of the cubit is cleft into two fpeciall branchcs,ofwhich o?2c[t/îb.i isdiftributed through the region of thcleflerbone of the cabic,fbeotbcr through the region of the greater bone tothewrift, andfrooi thence,that being paft,into the skin of the infide of the hand. Dkethird Kerz/eofthearm[trfb.i.p^or the third, which is carried to thearm, lies next; The thirif* under the fécond, and in like manner with it arifes from that net-like texture. This nerve, whilft it pafles through the arm-pit, before it has yet attained to thsarm^bfings ^ g g g 3 fûrth