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DR. LEE ON THE GANGLIA AND NERVES OF THE HEART. 
in vera et genuina ganglia ; in Equo autem et Bove etiam in iis ramis cardiacorum 
qui per cordis superficiem reptant nonnulla corpora olivaria gignunt*.” In Tab. VII. 
fig. 1, he represents, and at p. 42 specifies some of these enlargements; one, e. g. 
marked 7? as a “ gangliforrnis intumescentia a second, marked 30, as “ cardiaci 
sinistri ganglion irisigne.” Scarpa also describes and figures several nerves inde- 
pendent of, and not accompanying the blood-vessels of the heart, and avails himself 
of the fact to refute the conclusions to which Behrends had arrived in the Treatise 
above quoted. 
The following are the facts relative to the nervous supply of the heart which I 
believe myself to have established by examination of the foetal heart, of the heart of 
a child at the age of six years, of the heart of an adult in a sound state, of the human 
heart hypertrophied, and of the heart of the Ox, and which the preparations are pre- 
served to demonstrate. 
The drawing No. 1, entitled “The nerves of the heart of a child nine years of 
age,” nat. size, represents the preparation displaying the nerves distributed over the 
exterior of the left ventricle which come off from the “plexus coronarius posticus” 
of Scarpa 'I', together with a few filaments from the “plexus coronarius anterior,” 
Scarpa. It shows the ganglions which Scarpa has delineated below the letters a 
and h in his Tab. IV., and also the slight enlargement at point of confluence of three 
or more nerves which Scarpa has likewise figured, as e. g. between the nerves num- 
bered 58 and 59, and in several other parts of the cardiac nerves displayed in the 
Tab. IV. above cited. In the place of the long and narrow loop on the nerve which 
Scarpa figures between the two chief branches of the posterior coronary artery, my 
preparation shows, as in the drawing herewith sent, a slender fusiform enlargement. 
The preparation also demonstrates nerves extending beyond the points where they 
end in Scarpa’s figure, as far as the apex of the heart ; and a slight expansion and 
flattening is presented by some of these apicial filaments of nerves, and nerves not 
coincident in their course with the arterial branches are also shown in the prepara- 
tion which have neither been described nor delineated by previous anatomists. 
In the dissection of the sound heart of the adult, depicted in the drawing No. 2, 
entitled “The ganglia and nerves at the apex of the left ventricle of the sound 
human heart,” the additional nerves at the apex of the left ventricle are more clearly 
shown, in which three slender fusiform enlargements are shown on nerves accompa- 
nying the apicial branch of the posterior coronary artery : there is also a well-marked 
angular enlargement at the point of junction of four nerves near a neighbouring 
branch of the artery. 
The preparation which most distinctly establishes the fact of fusiform enlarge- 
ments of the cardiac nerves, is that represented in the drawing No. 3, entitled “ The 
ganglia and nerves of the left ventricle of a Heifer’s heart and cardiac fascia in 
Op. cit. p. 2. 
j Tabulae Neurologicae, fol. 1794, Tab. IV. Nos. 45, 46, 47, 48, 6U and 6i. 
