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Just as Poupart’s and Cooper’s Ligament are formed by 
transversal, fiber bundles interwoven where fascia-extensions, coming 
from different directions, meet, we also find in a number of cases 
a fully developed frontal fiber-bundle there where passing behind 
Poupart f. transversalis and fascia lata become merged. This is 
the very bundle felt by La CHAPELLE in vivo. It naturally runs 
parallel to the ligamentum inguinale in a somewhat deeper level. 
This ligament, which I observed most distinctly in two of the four 
corpses examined, and which in the frontal section of the female 
pelvis was highly conspicuous as a bundle of 2 mm in diameter 
(see figs 2 and 3), is no doubt the same as THomson’s ligament 
(Bandelette iliopubienne) described especially by French writers. 
3. While then the fascia transversalis forms distally a closed 
vascular sheath about the vasa femoralia, proximally te same thing 
occurs, as pointed out above. This bears more particularly on 
OmBREDANNE’S region. According to a number of authors the fascia 
transversalis reaches no further down than to the upper limit of 
the pelvis, which means to say down to the os pubis. It goes 
without saying that this view is incompatible with the relation 
described by me. Besides relying on direct observation of my 
sagittal sections which in my judgment, proves irrefutably the con- 
nection between fascia transversalis and fascia pelvis, I also call 
to witness other authors making special mention of this connection. 
First of all SpaLrrHortz in his well-known atlas (p. 613); secondly 
Pau Dergert, whom we have referred to in connection with the 
crural extension of the fascia transversalis. There we read: „En 
bas il (F. tr.) descend seulement jusqu’ au pubis (CHARPeY, Piprre 
Dergert); le plus souvent, si jen crois mes recherches, confirmées 
par les récents travaux D’OMRREDANNE, il se continue jusqu’ au plancher 
pelvien. Il recouvre alors sur la ligne mediane le pubis, qu’il sépare 
de la vessie, latéralement le ligament de Gimbernat: plus en 
dehors lorifice des vaisseaux fémoraux. Une partie de ce tissu 
cellulaire suit les vaisseaux dans la cuisse, l'autre descend directe- 
ment derrière lorifice en formant le septum crural. Par sa face 
antérieure il adhère intimement aux arcade de Dovaras, en bas il 
contracte avec la face postérieure du pubis des adhérences laches’, etc. 
It will be remembered that in the exordium of this article we have 
stated that OMBREDANNE has emphatically asserted that the vessels 
in the subperitoneal pelvic connective tissue are not merely lined 
by the fascia pelvis, but that this fascia provides them with a 
complete sheath, that as OMBREDANNE puts it, then run 22to this 
fascia. Now when correlating this deseription, which as already 
