Paper, 'The minute anatomy of the brachial plexus' by W P [Wilmot Parker] Herringham

Description

Herringham writes: 'It has for some time appeared probable that the spinal nerves which form the brachial plexus do not become confounded one with another, but retain each its separate course and its separate functions. To the naked eye a nerve is a bundle of parallel threads bound together, and at the same time divided by a sheath of connective tissue. It seemed to me possible that the course of the spinal nerve roots could be traced by a dissection which should follow each through the plexus to the nerves which branch therefrom, and in these to its final destination.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes three diagrams in the text, five plates of figures and two fold-out tables.

Subject: Anatomy

Received 8 March 1886. Read 25 March 1886. Communicated by William Scovell Savory.

A version of this paper was published in volume 41 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The minute anatomy of the brachial plexus'.

Reference number

PP/9/13

Earliest possible date

1886

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

39 pages

Format

Manuscript
Drawing