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do more than suggest to the student that he should early learn to cultivate a 

 delicate touch. It requires but little effort with the forceps to divide the delicate 

 connective tissue that surrounds all vessels and nerves, and intervenes between 

 muscles. In the sole of the foot you will find, in this order, from without in- 

 ward, the following structures : 



1. The thickest skin of the body on the sole of the foot. 



2. Superficial fascia, very thick, containing granular fat. 



3. The deep or plantar fascia, with its three divisions. 



Abductor minimi digit! 



Flexor brevis minimi digiti 



Tendon of flexor longus digitorum 



Plexor brevis digitorum 



Abductor liallucis 



Flexor longus hallucie 



Flexor brevis hallucis 

 First lumbricalis 



Tendon of adductor hallucis 



FIG. 271. FIRST LAYER or mi: MTSCLES OF THE SOLS, 



4. The first layer of muscles: The abductor hallucis, the flexor brevis digi- 

 torum, and the abductor minimi digiti. 



5. 'I'lic internal and external plantar nerves and vessels. (Fig- 272.) 



6. The second layer of muscles : The tendon of flexor longus hallucis and a 

 slip of contribution to the flexor longus digitorum ; tendons of the flexor longus 

 digitorum ; the musculus accessorius and lumbricales ; the nerve- and blood- 

 supply to these muscles. 



7. Hie third layer of muscles : Flexor brevis hallucis and its sesamoid bones ; 

 abductor hallucis muscle ; flexor brevis minimi digiti muscle; transversus pedis 

 muscle ; nerve- and blood-sup] >!y to these muscles. 



