On the ganglia and nerves of the heart / by Robert Lee.

  • Robert Lee
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the ganglia and nerves of the heart / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Explanation of the Plates. PLATE III. Exhibits the trunk and branches of the coronary arteries, and the ganglia and nerves distributed over the anterior surface of the ventricles of the young Heifer’s heart; the serous membrane and cardiac fascia having been wholly removed. PLATE IV. Represents the posterior surface of the same heart covered with ganglia and nerves, from the base to the apex. PLATE V. Represents the aorta and the anterior surface of a human heart which was hyper- trophied, and weighed four pounds. The trunk and some of the branches of the left coronary artery were ossified. The pulmonary artery has been cut away close to the right ventricle. A portion of the wall of the right ventricle has been removed to expose the cavity and the septum between the ventricles. The serous membrane has been reflected off from the cardiac fascia, a small portion only of which has been left covering the ventricle. a. The arch of the aorta. b. The origin of the pulmonary artery, which has been completely removed. c. The anterior surface of the left ventricle. d. The anterior surface of the right ventricle. e. The great ganglionic plexus of nerves into which branches from the par vagum, recurrent and sympathetic nerves of both sides enter, and from which the principal cardiac nerves take their origin. f. The par vagum of the left side. g. The trunk of the left coronary artery ossified and completely surrounded with ganglia and nerves, which are distributed over the whole surface of the ventricle to the apex. h. The serous membrane reflected off from the cardiac fascia, a small por- tion only of which is left covering the ganglia and nerves near the apex. i. The cardiac fascia.