The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea.

  • Ambroise Paré
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M DC XCI. [1691]
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Credit: The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extending mufcles of the cheft, or Dorfi longijfmus^ the long mufcle of the back, znd facrolumhus, that which bends the loins called/^cer, and the broad mufcle that leads the atm away from thebrefti as alfo the three which extend the thigh, being the authors of the buttocks, and therefore caWtd glut the buttock mufcles. And this is the utmoft end of the fpinal marrow, which reaching into the rump bone, called Os coccygis is in this manner terminated : And this is the hiftory of the thirty pairs of the Nerves which go out of the fpinal marrow, which is diligently and accurately to be commit¬ ted to the memory, that we may know to what place remedies ought to be applied, ifat any time fromfome external caufe, as by a fall from aloft, or a bruife, or fomc notable comprelTion any part (hall have loft cither motion, or fenfe, or both. For the remedies muft be applied always to the be* ginning of that Nerve, not to the place in which thefymptOm is perceived. CHAP. VI. Concerning the Nerves pohich are diflribuled through the Arms. THofe Nerves being now enumerated, which are difperfed through the mufcles of the threS bellies, and the parts contained in them > it remains that we deferibe thofe alfo, which p® propagated through the artus^ or extreme parts of the body. Here we meet with them hrft which arediftributed through the arms, whereof there are fix pairs commonly fet down by Anato- mifts 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 fecond of thofe which iffue out of the cheft. Thefe nerves go out through the common holes of the rack-bones, on both fides, and prefently after their going outare united one among another with their forwarder and greater branches, by and by are feparated one from another again, and joined again, and finally feparated, fo that they feem to make out a certain net-like tex¬ ture, which cannot be better likened than to thofe firings of Cardinals Hats. This implication of Nerves goes forth under the clavicle or collar-bone, about the place where the Axillary Veins and Ar¬ teries go out of the hollow of the cheft, and from this all the Nerves of the arm take their original. But their rife is very uncertain by reafon of their being fo knit together > wherefore we in our rela¬ tion of them will rather follow the footfteps of other men than our obfervations, leftweftiould feem to affedt new opinions ralhly, and without neceffity. ^ i i , c « The firft Nerve then which is carried to the arrh, is a double propagation, namely the The . third and fourth of the fore-branch of the fifth pair of the neck. For the one branch [t^^.i.YJ is nei^e ot tne carried to the fecond mufole of the upper part of the arm called and to the skin that lies upon it; the other .b^ goes toward the neck of the Ihoulder-blade, where it is deft into two branches 5 the former ot which ltab.i.c] goes into the mufcle Oeltoides, where it arifes from the collar-bone i the latter \jab.i.dL^ is inlcrted into the fourth pair of the mufcles of the bone hyoides^ called Coracohyoideumy and from thence affords a little branch to the upper fuperfcapular mufcle, and the Veltoides at ^^hat place it arifes from the fpine of the ftioulder-blade. This Nerve runs out through the himer iide of the arm 5 but the other five are carried through the arm-pit into the arm, and in the fame are fcattered into more branches. . . , ^ i- The fecond Nerve M.i.n is thicker, and takes its original from that net-like complication, of Thefecondo which we fpake '•> yet from what nerve, cannot be evident enough. This is carried down through the middle and fore-part of the arm, into 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 ate inferted both of the peaoral mufcle that leads the arm forward to the breft, and ol the _ ^ Pe^ttiArthatliftsitup. Being hid then under this mufcle it fends forth two propagations one of each fide, which enters into the two heads of the mufcle biceps i and after that about the mid¬ dle of the length of the upper part ot the arm, going under the fame double-headed mulcle, it Ihoots forth another fprig [tab.i. t] by means whereof it is joined with the third nerve s and from thence defeending it diftributes in its progrefs a furcle [tab.i from its out-fide to the head of the longer o the two mufcles of the radius or wand that turns the palm of the hand downward. When it is come to the bending of the cubit, being led to thefleftiy membrane, near to the out-fide of the ten¬ don of the faid double-headed mufcle, it isdiftributed intotheskin, being divided into two . ches, of which one is the outer, the other the inner 5 that is the flender^ tlucker. e ou ter then [tab.i. being carried down a good way with a branch of theCephali^ vein through the in- fide ot the cubit, is diftributed Itab. \.K’]to th(5 fecond bone of the thumb. The inner branch [tab. I. is fubdivided under the common vein of the arm, or the middle one called Medianay into two branches, the outer whereof [tab.i.going on obliquely undent the skin leaving the vein goes toward the radius as far as to the wrift: but the inner [tab.i. v] being faftened to the inner branch ot . the Cephalick vein, when it goes more obliquely in the region ot the cubit is cleft into Ipccial branches,ofwhich one isdiftributed through the region ofthelefler bone of the cubit, the other [tab. 1.0] through the region of the greater bone to the wrift, and from thence, that being palt, into the skin ot the inlide of the hand. ’ .11 r ^ J The hinder Neiveof the atm [tAi. f] or thethird, which is earned to the arm, lies nxt under The the fecond, and in like manner with it arifes from that net-like texture. ThisNeive,whileft it pafies through the arm-pit,before it hath yet attained to the arm, brings form a propagation [f 12^.1.5] whidi is di&rfed under the skin betwixt the peftoral mufcle that leads the arm to the bteft, and the mu c c Veltoides that lifts up the fame. But when it hath firft attained to the arm, it hides it felf unde he mufcle bkefs, or firft bender of the cubit, and paffing on downward together with dx tond na . it fends out a little branch [tab.i. into the head of the fecond bending mufcle 'h^ihit- Ac this defeending it receives a branch [tab.i.u;\ from the fecond Nerve, by means j ned one with the other, and then it goes further through the fore-part of the atm unto the bendii g