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THE NERVES. 



The nerve of the serratus magnus does not show the branch which, in the Horse, 

 arises from the sixth nerve and passes through the scalenus ; but on the surface of the 

 serratus magnus it receives a filament from the branch of the angularis. The latter is 

 detached from the sixth. 



The branch of the great dorsal muscle and the axillary nerve are confounded at their 

 origin, and also adhere to one of the two branches of the subscapularis nerve. The 



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NERVES OF THE DIGITAL REGION OF RUMINANTS; POSTERIOR FACE/ 



X, Internal plantar nerve, a continuation of the median ; C, Internal plantar nerve, 

 a continuation of the ulnar ; 1, Branch of the plantar, furnishing, 2, the internal 

 collateral nerve of the internal digit ; 3, Branch giving off the interno/1 collaterals 

 of the digits; 1', Branch of the internal plantar that joins the external plantar; 

 4, External collateral of the external digit. 



second branch of the latter is free throughout, and distributed in the muscle of the same 

 name, along with some filaments furnished by the superscapularis. 

 The radial nerve, when it reaches the teres major, divides into three branches : one is 



