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After giving off this branch, the fourth brachial 

 nerve runs before the ligament of the wrift in- 

 wards, towards the palm of the hand, where it di- 

 vides into the branches 52, 53, 54. Of which 



52, The firft remarkable one, fpreading itfelf in the 

 wrift under the tendons of the profundus and the 

 iumbricales unufcles, its branches are diftributed 

 principally to thefe, viz. the abductor of the 

 little finger, the adductor of the fourth metacar- 

 pal bone, the interofleous mufcles, the adductor 

 of the thumb, the fhort flexor of the thumb, and 

 the abductor of the fore finger. 



53, The fecond, after it has given off the fubcura- 



neous branch which is here cut away, and an- 

 other to the abductor of the little finger, runs 

 along the back part of the little finger. 



54, The third, dividing into two at the roots of the ring 



finger and little finger; one branch runs along 

 the fide of the little finger next the ring finger, 

 and the other along the fide of the ring finger 

 next the little finger. 



