Note on the epitrochleo-anconeus or anconeus sextus (Gruber) / by John C. Galton.

  • Galton, John Charles.
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[1875?]
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Credit: Note on the epitrochleo-anconeus or anconeus sextus (Gruber) / by John C. Galton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [From the Journal of Anatomy 'and Physiology, Vol. IX.] NOTE ON THE EPITROCHLEO-ANCONEUS OR CONEUS SEXTUS (GRUBER). By John C. Galt M.A. (Oxon.), F.L.S. (PI. II.) As the subject of the Epitrochleo-anconeus muscle has been well-nigh exhausted by Professor Wenzel Gruber, of St Peters- burg, in an elaborate monograph1, and an appended supple- ment2, it is not my intention to do more than add a few figures of its occurrence in certain mammals whose myology in this respect is not represented in Prof. Gruber’s plates, and to make a few general remarks upon the muscle in question; and I am the more encouraged to perform that which to some, nay even to myself, may seem a work of supererogation, by some recent expressions of Dr Burt Wilder, a well-known American anatomist, to the effect that “ there is need of more accuracy in the dissection, delineation, and description of muscles, since at present there is great confusion respecting the nature of true muscular integers, and the basis of muscular homologies3 4.” Prof. Gruber, in the first of his monographs on the epitroch- leo-anconeus, illustrates the subject by two lithographic plates, the first of which, in five figures, represents its occurrence in man, while in the second plate a comparative view is given of its presence in Inuus nemestrinus, Cebus fatuellus, Galeopithecus volans, Myogale moschata, Ursus arctos, Felis leo, Felis domes- tica*, Dasyurus viverrinus, Lepus timidus, Dasypus tricinctus, and Phoca vitulina. This anatomist, though he figures its oc- currence in only eleven genera of mammals, exclusive of man, has, nevertheless, found this muscle in no fewer than forty-seven 1 XJeber den Musculus epitrochleo-anconeus des Menschen und der Sauge- thiere (mit 3 Tafeln). Mem. de VAcad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 7th ser. Tom. x. No. 5. 2 Nachtrag zur Kenntniss des Musculus epitrochleo-anconeus der Saugethiere. Bulletins de VAcad. Imp. des Sciences de St. P&tersb. Tom. xii. p. 329. No figures accompany this paper. A few supplementary remarks upon this muscle are further made in the course of a paper entitled Ueber den Musculus Anconeus v. des Menschen. Memoires. Tom. xvx. No. 1. 1871. 3 The Pectoral Muscles of Mammalia. Proc. A meric. Assoc, for Advance- ment of Science, Aug. 1873, p. 307. Published 1874. Ithaca, N. Y. 4 Possibly the ancone interne of Strauss-Durckheim. Anatomie Descriptive et Comparative du Chat, Tom. ii. p. 351, and Atlas, Plate ix. Fig. 3, 17, Paris,