542 . Diseases of Muscles, Tendons, etc. 



SERIES IX. INJURIES AND DISEASES OF MUSCLES 

 AND TENDONS, SYNOVIAL SHEATHS, BURS>C, 

 AND FASOI^e AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 



MUSCLES AND TENDONS. 



1. Injuries. 



9. 1. Injury to Tendons. — Thumb and long flexor tendon — in 

 spirit, illustrating the result of evulsion. 



The parts were torn off by being entangled in machinery. 

 The specimen illustrates what has been often observed 

 when fingers are torn oflf, viz. that the part which gives way 

 is the attachment between the muscle and the tendon, rather 

 than the tendon itself. B. C. 4. i. M. 5. 



2. Diseases. 



I. Abnormalities in Growth or DEVELOPiMENT. 

 Specimens wanted. 



II. Changes peoduced by Conditions affecting the Nutrition and 

 Growth of Muscle and Tendon, 



A. Changes from Local Conditions affecting the Nutrition and Growth of 



Muscles and Tendons. For Disease, see Series 1. 



B. Changes from affections of the Nervous System. 



9. 2. Atrophy of Muscle from Paralysis.— Humerus, part 



of scapula, and upper end of radius and ulna, with some of the 

 muscles attached — in spirit, from a paralytic patient. 



The biceps muscle is reduced to a thin fibrous cord, and 

 its tendons are correspondingly small. The coraco-brachialis, 



