Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (Volume 20)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... the anterior belly of the omo-hyoid, the hypoglossal, and the glossopharyngeal nerves. I have not been able to find any account of a similar muscle on record. Macalister, in Transactions of Royal Irish Academy, 1871, refers to one case in which a slip from the anterior margin of the sterno-mastoid was inserted into the tympanic ring; and this is the only record I can find of an insertion of any part of the sterno-mastoid into the petrous part of the temporal. I have also consulted Testut's Anomalie Musculaire, Gruher's Anatomisehe Notizen in Virchoic's Areltiv., and also Meckel's Vergleicfiende Anatomie, but have failed to Rain from them any information bearing upon this peculiar abnormality. In conclusion, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor Thane for kindly advice, and for lending me works of reference. NOTE ON A CASE OF CONGENITAL HYPEKTROPHY OF THE LEG. (Diffuse Venous Naevus.) By Gilbert Barling, M.B. The specimen which I had the opportunity of dissecting was the left leg of a man, aged fifty years, who stated that at his birth, the left leg was larger round than the right, and that the left foot was deformed, but, except for the weight of the limb, he had not suffered much inconvenience, and had until recently been able to get about quite actively. I had no opportunity of making comparative measurements of the two legs, but, roughly speaking, the left leg, from a little above the knee downwards, was about three times the size of the right. The enlargement was not quite uniform, affecting chiefly the posterior surface, and not extending further on the foot than the base of the metatarsus. There was varicosity of the smaller skin veins, but there was no ulceration of the skin, nor had there been any. To the feel, the...