Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of the Anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Engravings of the arteries : illustrating the second volume of the Anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to the surgery of the arteries / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 GO 2. The branches of the Popliteal Artery, called Siirales, They go to the heads of the Gastrocnemius Muscle. N. B. The Articular Arteries are concealed here. They are five in number; two Superior Articular Arteries, in- ternal and external, which encircle the joint, two Inferior Articular Arteries, also internal and external, which encircle the lower part of the joint, and one which is irregularly distributed to the back of the knee joint, named Articularis Media. 3. Anterior Tibial Artery. 4<. The division of the artery into the Posterior Tibial and Fibu- lar arteries. 5. The Fibular Artery.* 6. The Posterior Tibial Artery.\ * To cut for the Fibular Artery. “ To find this artery, two hands’ breadth from tlic heel, cut betwixt tlic “ Gastrocnemius and the Peroneus Longus, i. e, on the outside of the Gas- “ trocnemius where it is becoming tendinous ; turn up the edge of the ten- “ don; you then find the Flexor Pollicis covered with its sheath. If you “ seek for the Fibular Artery by going deep in the leg without piercing “ this fascia, or sheath, you find the Tibial Nerve, and may come on the “ Tibial Artery, To find the Fibular, then, we cut down by the side of “ the bone (Fibula) and raise the fibrous origins of the Flexor Pollicis. “ We then find the artery by the acute edge of the bone lying on the Inter- “ osseous Ligaments, accompanied only by its vena? comites.” Case of Aneurism of the Fibular Artery, from being wounded in a frac- ture of the leg. The tumour was opened, and the man died from bleeding. — John Bell’s Principles nf Surgery, vol. i. p. 3.37. Description of an operation of tying the Fibular Artery, by Mr. Guthrie. — Med. Chir. Trans, vol. vii. p;536. •F To take up the Posterior 2’ibial Artery. “ For complicated wounds in the sole of the foot, this artery may require “ to be taken up behind the Ancle Joint, and before it pierces under the ‘ ‘ Abductor Pollicis Pedis. We shall be directed to the exact place by “ observing the lowest projecting part of the Tibia. The tendons which “ run close upon this tuberosity of the bone, are the Tibialis Posticus, and “ Flexor Communis; the first lies so closely braced to the bone in its parti- “ cular sheath, that it will not be observed; the artery runs a little nearer ” the heel than the tendon of the Flexor Comrhunis, a fascia braces down 4