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the second, thinl, and fourth, common plantar digitals. Near the bases of the 

 inetatarsal bones, 1 lie second, 1 liinl. anil fourth divide into proper plantar digital 

 nerves. The first proper plantar digital nerve becomes subcutaneous farther back 

 than I he others, and, after sending a branch to the flexor hallucis brevis, passes to the 

 inner side of the great toe. The second (common digital) nerve gives a twig to the 

 first himbrical and bifurcates to supply the adjacent sidesof the first and second toes. 

 The third supplies the adjacent sides of the second and third toes, and the fourth, 

 after communicating with the superficial branch of the lateral plantar nerve, 

 divides to supply the adjacent sides of the third and fourth toes. All the proper 



FIG. 696.- -Si ri.Ki II-IAL XEHVES IN THE SOLE OF THE FOOT. (Ellis.) 



Abductor hallucis 



Flexor digitorum brevia 



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Mtitial plantar artery 



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Lati ral plantar artery 



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digital nerves run along the sides of the toes and lie below the corresponding arteries; 

 t hey supply the joints of the toes, and each gives off a dorsal branch to the skin over 

 the second and terminal phalanges and to the bed of the nail. All of them are con- 

 nected with numerous 1'ariniaii corpuscles. 



The Lateral Plantar Nerve is the smaller of the two terminal branches of the 

 tibial nerve. It commences at the lower border of the laciniate (internal annular) 

 ligament, or under cover of the origin of the abductor hallucis, and passes forwards 

 and outwards to the base of the fifth inetatarsal bone, whore it divides into a super- 

 ficial and a dee]) branch (fig. 696). As it runs forwards and outwards it is superficial 

 to the tendon of the flexor hallucis longus and to the quaclratus planta; (flexor 



