THE BRACHIAL PLEXUS. 



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tinuing its descending course along the perforans tendon, it throws off some 

 superficial metacarpal ramuscules, receives the accessory branch supplied by the 

 internal nerve, and terminates, like the latter, in a number of digital branches 

 on aiTiving at the fetlock ; these it now remains for us to examine. 



NERVES OF THE DIGIT. 



P, Plantar nerve ; B, median branch ; C, anterior branch ; d, digital artery ; H, inconstant division 

 given off to the cartilaginous bulbs; i, i, branch to the plantar cushion ; K, transverse coronary 

 branch ; m, podophyllous branch ; 0, preplantar branch ; Q, descending ramuscule to the fissure 

 of the patilobes ; R, ramuscules accompanying the digital artery in the plantar fissure ; v, vein 

 which is not constant, and which sometimes accompanies the plantar nerve throughout its 

 phalangeal course. 



The digital branches are the terminal branches of the plantar nerves ; they 

 are three in number on each side, and accompany the digital artery and vein. 



