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s sof the lower extremity, and 
“The cleareft -account of the 
a thinner as which gives to the Phe a clearly de- 
fined fharp edge atits potterior margin. The latter divifion 
of the tendon mult of courfe be fituated ae more deeply 
from the furface than the former. iry edge can 
be felt very diftinéily by pafling the finger eit the crural 
arch, on the inner fide of the femoral vein, either from above 
or below. 
‘© If we defcribe a diftin@ part under the name of Pou- 
part’s ligament, we fhould ftate, that when it approaches 
i bone it becomes fuddenly bionders that it is fixed by 
this broad portion along the whole length of the {pine and 
crifta of the pubes; that it has a rounded and ftrong anterior 
‘edge, a thin and fharp pofter 
of thefe is nearer to Ae furface, while the latter is compara- 
tively deeply feated. The breadth of this part varies in dif- 
ferent os ; it is generally rae three quarters of an inch 
to an inc ometim ag as Gimbernat has {tated, it mea- 
fires more than an in Dr. Monro has obferved, that it 
is broader in t sale st in the female fubje@ ; and from 
this ftruéture he explains in part the more rare occurrence 
of Taig rupture in the male. 
erior edge of Poupart’s ligament reprefents a 
Aasig Tine, drawn from the ilium to the pubes: the pof- 
rs the te are. ny 
« The s which have been already enumerated fill 
“up the {pace iiag the crural arch and the os innomi- 
‘natum. ‘The crural veffels, placed in ts fmooth flope on 
the front of the pubes, are rhage laterally with RE cb to 
each other. Next to the thin end of the arch is the vein, 
with the art 
is Deceit ound b n the vein and the tendon; or elfe 
this {pace i is only sieispiek by loof; cellular fubftanc tat : 
«“ of the obliguus externus is flretched 
ike a cord between two diftant points, and there 
dominal vifcera under its edge muit happen v 
aly. ‘Thisi is —— prevented by the ar Ne 
confining the tendon clofely to the farfece of 
» and that portion of the pfoas 
- which lies by it “< 5 de, are covered by a thin ftcia, 
-arilittg infenfibly on the furface o mufeles, me intimately _ 
connected with the expanded tendon of the pfoas parvus 
This fafcia is oo conta& with the mufcles ; the 
iliac veffels and the peritoneum cover its anterior furface, 
-and-dre connected to oo lly fubftance. Itis 
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rior margin, .and that the former the t 
lyi ng externally = it. An abforbing gland 
etw 
_ covered by the fafcia lata. 
attached on the infide to the line which bounds the fuperior 
me onde Ss of the pelvis; on the outtide, to the anterior pors 
on of the in ner edge of the crifta ilii; and below, to the 
bone, and behind the artery and vein into the thigh, where 
it forms the pofterior portion of the fheath, including thofe 
veffels, and is continuous with the fafcia lata. 
*¢ In confequence of the {tructure jutt defcribed, the cru 
ral arch is firmly confined in its fituation, and the protrafion 
of the abdominal vifcera under it is obviated. A fmall 
fice however, is left between the iliac vein and ee thin 
border. of the tendon, not clofed towards the abdominal 
cavity, and, confequently, affording 
occurrence of herniz. 
lular fubitance, or _ abforbing gland, is called by Gimber- 
nat the crura/, and by Mr. Hey » the femoral ring. The 
{pace in quettion is — above and in front by the crural 
arch; below and behind by the pubes; on the internal or 
mefial fide by the thin border of the Slap and on the 
outer, or lateral afpeét, by the crural’ve 
“The fafcia lata, or fafcia of the chip has two bes 
infertions at the upper and anterior part 0 
attached to the front edge of the pubes, over the he of 
the pectineus, the fibres of which it clofely covers, and it 
is allo fixed to the front of the cruralarch. The former of 
thefe i is asses behind the femoral —— with the 
Wale the anterior portion of the crural arch a la 
oval depreffion is found on the front of the thigh, on 
furface of the peCtineus faite. At the upper, outer, and 
lower fides, this hollow is bounded by a fharp and d defined 
edge of the fafcia; but it has no fuch boundary internally. 
Where the sttachiinent of the fafcia lata to the crural 
Stance it forms a diftin@ femi-lunar, or crefcent-h 
fold. upper end, or horn of this crefcent, is the lait 
| portion of the fafcia aie the infide, conneéted to the 
crural arch, and it bends er the tendon 
with the chu portion or beiiies at its commencem i ied 
concavity is turned towards the oppofite limb, and ae infe- 
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rior horn is fituated downwards and outwards on the thigh. 
This fold covers the femoral artery and vein juft _ a 
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tioned fold, and opens into the femoral, wher 
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preffion is not defined by any bounda The fais cover- 
ing the Meo on is Fay ae behind the femoral veffels, 
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