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subperifoneal areas of the pelvis. That more laterally the 
fascia transversalis attaches itself the ruscular sheath of the femoral 
vessels, did not surprise me as | was not ignorant of Testur-Jacos’s 
description of the “insertion inférieure” of the fascia transversalis: 
“Puis, continuant son traject descendant, ce fascia rencontre les 
vaisseaux femoraux: il se fixe sur leur pourtour, en contractant avec 
eux, avec la veine particulièrement, des adhérences intimes” (p. 43). 
However my view was considerably altered when a close study 
of the sagittal sections taught me the following facts: 
1. That the free border alluded to was an artificial product 
originated during the removal of the fascia lata for that there is a 
continual relationship between tbe fascia transversalis and the 
fascia lata. 
Fig. 3 shows how some of the fibers of the fascia lata attach 
themselves to Poupart, resp. blends with the fascia abdominis 
superficialis; how others, the larger number of its fibers, running 
along behind Poupart get connection with that lower end of the 
fascia transversalis, which, as described above, reaches the crural 
region together with the vessels. Thus formulated this remark may 
sound strange to the reader; on closer inspection, however, our 
representation is not so strange, not even new. Also in the litera- 
ture mention is made everywhere of the junction of the fibers of 
these two fasciae in the ligamentum inguinale, to which, from above, 
the fascia transversalis, from below the superficial layer of the fascia 
lata, attaches itself. And besides, already DerBer (Poirier. Traité, 
T. 5, pag. 89) reports a concurrence of the f. transversalis with 
the vessels on the thigh. ; 
2. We saw just now that the fascia lata and transversalis were 
connected when passing before the vessels, on the tacit understanding 
that with f. lata we meant only the superficial leaf. Now the sagittal 
sections afford us another datum of fundamental significance, viz. 
that while passing behind the vessels the fascia transversa is in 
precisely the same way connected with the deep layer of the fascia 
lata, ie. with the layer that lines the bottom of the fossa scarpae. 
This is no novelty either, since, as we know, Cooper’s ligament 
lining the pecten ossis, is generally acknowledged to be an inter- 
lacement of fascia transversa and deep fascia-lata-fibers. 
When combining the facts mentioned under 1 and 2, we arrive 
at the conclusion that, as said above, the fascia transversa, 
on meeting the vasa iliaca, not merely attaches itself 
to them, but forms round it a closed sheath. For further 
illustration we add the following particular: . 
