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partly accompanies them distally and passes with them to the crural 
regio beneath Poupart’s ligament. The faszia layer, of which, as 
described above, we could spy the free border after removal of the 
fascia lata (superficial layer), is indeed nothing else but the lower 
end of the fascia transversalis, which could not but pass on to the 
thigh, because it had been inseparably attached to the vessels by 
the formation of the vessel-sheath. 
ftransv- | ben 
M.Rectus-- îJ-M.obl. int. 
HLL m_obl.ext. 
i-F-fasc. sup. 
Lig. Goeper 
Fig. 3. 
Paramedian sagittal section through a female pelvis. Showing semi-schematically 
the insertion of THomson’s ligament on the os pubis. It is remarkable that, in 
consequence of an exchange of fibers of the m. rectus and the f. transvers, a close 
connection is brought about between THumson’s lig. and the insertion of m. rectus. 
_ In harmony with this the free border of this extension of fascia, 
just now described, and radiating out medially into the fascia pectina, 
concurs in forming the vessel-sheath where it could no more be 
separated from the fibers of the fascia lata. 
When I had proceeded so far in my investigation, | felt justified 
in establishing that the fascia transversalis, instead of inserting itself 
to the os pubis and of forming CroQvet’s septum, terminates 
medial to the femoral vessels with a free border, and that, therefore, 
the lymphatic vessels, instead of piercing the fascia 
(in loco Sept. of Croquwm), pass undermeath it to the 
