THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM OF 



THE FEET. 



1. The Plantar Arteries. 



2. The Plantar Capillaries. 



3. The Plantar Veins. 



THE PLANTAR ARTERIES. 



GENERAL REMARKS UPON ARTERIES. 



Before describing the course of the arteries of the foot, it may 

 possibly be not altogether uninstructive to non-professional 

 readers to learn something of the nature of that wonderful 

 system forming a part of the general animal economy, through 

 the agency of which every change in the tissues are effected, 

 either for good or ill. 



By means of the circulatory system, the waste materials, the 

 worn-out particles of matter are conveyed to their appropriate 

 organs of elimination from the system ; and the new, vitalized, 

 and vitalizing, molecules of matter deposited in their place. 

 The value of an adequate appreciation of the facts of physi- 

 ology having especial relation to the foot and the circulating 

 system, is but little suspected. Believing this, I deem some 

 few facts of this nature of sufficient importance to justify the 

 introduction of the following brief notes upon the nature of 

 the arteries as well as of the capillaries and veins which will 

 follow, albeit they may be deemed somewhat advanced for 

 many of my readers. 



