Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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tal branches of the median nerve. The plantar nerves sup- ply the integument along the inner sole and side of the foot, also the articulations of the tarsal and metatarsal bones. The external plantar branch gives nervelets to the integument along the outer border and sole of the foot, and then sends forward two digital branches to supply the little toe and one side of the next toe. The peroneal nerve, we know, is one of the principal terminal branches of the great ischiatic nerve, the popliteal and posterior tibial being the other forks. And this bifurcation, we know, takes place above the popliteal space. This nerve passes outward and downward by the side of the inner hamstring, or tendon of the biceps, cross- ing the inner head of the gastrocnemius, and the origin of the solens, to the neck of the fibula, and there emerges from under the origin of the peroneus longus muscle, and then divides into the anterior tibial and the mitsculo-cutancous. From the peroneal nerve there is first the communicans pero- nei, which crosses over the external head of the gastrocnemius to the middle of the leg. It then sends a large branch to unite with a large branch from the com- municans poplitei, and so constitutes the external saphenous nerve ; it then descends to the external ankle, to which, and to Fig. si. a view or ti the integument of the heel, it distributes Termination of the Posterior nervelets. Tibial Nerve in the Sole of mi ihe Foot. i he cutaneous branch of the peroneal 1. Inside of the Foot. 2. Outside of the Foot. • 3. The Heel. 4. Internal Plantar Nerve. 5. Externa! Plantar Nerve. 6. Branch to the Flexor Brevis Muscle. 7. Branch to the outside of the Little Toe. 8. Branch to the space between the Fourth and Fifth Toes. 9, 9, 9. Digital Branches to the remaining spaces. 10. Branch to the internal side of the Great Toe.