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DR. LEE ON THE GANGLIA AND NERVES OF THE HEART. 
g. The ganglionic plexus of nerves accompanying and surrounding the 
trunk and branches of the left coronary artery, and the ganglia and 
nerves distributed over the muscular substance of the left ventricle to 
the apex ; the serous membrane and cardiac fascia having been 
removed. 
Fig. 2 represents the ganglia and nerves at the apex of the anterior surface of the 
adult human heart in the natural state, with a portion of the cardiac fascia 
dissected off from the blood-vessels, nerves and muscular substance to 
which it firmly adhered. 
a. The branches of the coronary artery at the apex of the heart surrounded 
by ganglia and nerves. 
h. Ganglia and nerves on the muscular substance af the heart ot the apex 
not accompanying blood-vessels, 
c. The cardiac fascia. 
PLATE II. 
Represents a portion of the cardiac fascia, and the ganglia and nerves on the surface 
of the left ventricle of the Heifer’s heart. 
a. A portion of the serous membrane dissected off from the cardiac fascia. 
b. The cardiac fascia with the numerous ganglia and nerves seen through 
it, undisturbed by dissection. 
c. Branches of the left coronary artery, with ganglia on the nerves where 
they cross the blood-vessels. 
