E X P L A N A T I O N
O F THE
T A B L E S .
T A B L E I.
' " J ^ H I S table ihows, in a foetus calf, the ftruiture of a plexus
formed by the internal carotid artery, called by Galen
Rete Mirabile.
A The top of the arteria carotis communis.
B External carotid arteries. e
C Several arteries which fupply the place of the fingle internal carotid in
man.
D Numerous fmall Terpentine branches into which thefe arteries are fubdivided
in their progrefs through the cranium.
E Thefe branches joining again into F, the principal trunk of the internal
carotid artery within the head, and which afterwards divides into
branches refembhng thofe in the human fubjcd.
D d T A B L E
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