Diagrams of the nerves of the human body : exhibiting their origin, divisions and connections, with their distribution to the various regions of the cutaneous surface and to all the muscles.

  • Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Diagrams of the nerves of the human body : exhibiting their origin, divisions and connections, with their distribution to the various regions of the cutaneous surface and to all the muscles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE These diagrams were originally published in 1860. They were designed by the author while engaged in teaching anatomy at the medical school attached to the Middlesex Hospital. They have no pretensions to enlarge the boundaries of the know- ledge already existing upon the subject to which they relate, but aim only at placing that knowledge in a form easily accessible, as well to students as to those whose avocations no longer afford the time or opportunity for anatomical investigations. The distribution of all the nerves of the body, so far as the branches have received distinctive appellations, is shown, and their divisions are traced to the muscles and to the various regions of the cutaneous surface. To afford greater facility for reference, the names of the muscles are printed in red letters; those of the nerves being black. It must be clearly understood that the plates are only diagrams or plans, and that in reducing to a plane surface objects which are in reality superimposed at various distances, and which sometimes cross one another, their mutual relations and proportions must often be disarranged. In the plexuses and other parts which vary somewhat in different subjects, the average distribution in its most simple form has been selected for illustration; and in difficult or disputed points, such as the connecting branches of the cranial nerves, only those which are established on good authority are introduced. As few things tend to embarrass the student so much as a diversity of nomen- clature, that used in the sixth edition of Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, by Dr Sharpey and Mr Ellis, has been adopted throughout. The principal materials for the composition of these diagrams have been obtained by repeated dissections; but the author desires to acknowledge the assistance derived from the above-named work, from that of Swan, and from the beautiful plates of Hirschfeld and Leveille. In the present edition the size of the diagrams has been considerably reduced, the convenience and portability of the work being thereby increased, without any detriment to its clearness or legibility. In revising.the plates, the author has availed himself of some suggestions for which he is indebted to the kindness of Professor Turner of Edin- burgh, of Mr J. Beswick Perrin, and of Dr W. W. Keen of Philadelphia. Royal College of Surgeons of England, September, 1872.