A treatise on hernia / by Antonio Scarpa, Professor of clinical surgery in the University of Pavia ; tr. from the Italian, with notes and an appendix, by John Henry Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A treatise on hernia / by Antonio Scarpa, Professor of clinical surgery in the University of Pavia ; tr. from the Italian, with notes and an appendix, by John Henry Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and that of those next the inion, iniaL The glabella is not at the greatest rectihneal distance from the i?iion, a distinction, which belongs to the chin in man, and the muzzle in most in- ferior animals. These parts are called by Dr. Barclay anti' nion, and the aspect or position that regards them is called aw- ti?iiaL The terms proper to the trtmk are also four; derived from the sterjiJim or breast-bone; the dorsum or back ; the atlas, or first vertebra of the spine; and the sacrum or rump-bone. Ac- cording as parts or surfaces respect one or other of these fixed points, they are sternal^ dorsal, atlantal, or sacral. The extremities are atlantal or sacral, according as they are^ situated next the atlas, or next the sacrum. Each pair of the extremities, and each of their component parts, have a proxi- mal, and a distal end; the former being that nearest the trunk, the latter that most remote from it. Four proper terras belong to the atlantal, and as many to the sacral extremities. Thus, as the former have a radius, an ulna, an a?icon, (or olecranon,) and a thenar (or palm ;) so in these, the aspects and positions are radial, ulnar, anconal, and ikenal. Again, as in the sacral extremities, there are a tibia^ 2.fibula, a rotula, and apoples, (or ham;) so the aspects and positions here are tibial, fibular, rotular, and popliteal. The term volar, in the atlantal extremities, is restricted, as in com- mon anatomical language, to the parts within the palm of the hand; while plantar, in the sacral extremities, is in like man- ner restricted to those within the sole of the foot.