Contributions to the comparative myology of the chimpanzee / by Burt G. Wilder.

  • Burt Green Wilder
Date:
1861
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Credit: Contributions to the comparative myology of the chimpanzee / by Burt G. Wilder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Flexor longus pollicis, and inserted into the inner borders of the bases of the first phalanges of the third, fourth, and fifth toes. Thus each toe receives a tendon from a long flexor to its third phalanx, the four outer toes each a Lumbricalis to the base of the first phalanx, the second, third, and fourth each a tendon from a short flexor to the second phalanx, and that of the third toe is also joined by a tendon from a long flexor ; the first and fifth toes having peculiar short muscles of their own, receive fewest tendons from the common flexors, and of the other three the middle one is naturally best provided. (See Table.) On the following Table, the asterisks indicate the insertion of tendons of the muscles named at the left, into the base of those phalanges of those digits against which they respectively stand; thus exhibiting the distri- bution of the tendons of each muscle, the tendons which each digit re- ceives, or the tendons which are inserted into any one phalanx. MAN. TROGLODYTES NIGER. MUSCLE. 'i fcc 60 S> ft ft S a 3 •3 ■a •a •a — ■5 ■3 •3 « A J3 ^ s - JS 2 *> - •p'gl CO *pv •* *P'g O ** IM <* * ri r Flexor longus digi- *l»'g 3d c torum 2d b 1st V. ■ Flexor longus pol- * * *p'g *P'g 3d a licis •J.I i-l 1st f Flexor brevis diiri- Sd • torum *])M- * p'd *p'd *p'd *p'd *p'ds 2d c 1st K Lumbrioalea Flax- 3d tn . oris Long! digitO- *p'd *p'd 2d t runi * * * * * 1st JB Lumbricalea Flex- Sd •/: oris long! polli- , cis * * * 2,1 1st From the above Table it will be at once remarked, that in the human foot there are three muscles distributed uni- formly to the corresponding phalanges of the four lesser 1 P'g=perforating. 2 P»d perforated. « This tendon joins that of the Lumbricales Flexoris long! digitonim, and is inserted with it.