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E X P L A N A T I O N OF THE TABLES. 145
FIG. V. and VI. Shew in what way the nerves from the thoracic ganglia
are joined with the proper intercoftal nerves.
Fig. V. Reprefents the nerves of their natural fize; and Fig. VI. iliews
the fame nerves as they appear through a magnifying glafs.
At NOP the anterior branch, or, as it is commonly called, the trunk of
the proper intercoftal nerve, is ihesvn to confiil of a plexus of nervous
fibres.
Q__Is the outer end of the principal nerve which joins the thoracic ganglion
to the proper intercoftal nerve.
R S Are branches of Q^ which are conne£ted by plexus to the proper intercoftal
nerve, nearly as the different branches of that nerve are connected
to each other. Some branches, as T, feem, by their direilion, to
go from the proper intercoftal to the great fympathetic ganglion;
others feem to come from the ganglion of the fympathetic to the proper
intercoftal nerve.
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