The valuable paper communicated to your Journal, by Mr. Stanley,
last week, has brought to my recollection a singular appearance of
the parts in front of the shoulder-joint which I dissected about
two years ago. It is a fact worth recording; and perhaps you will
be kind enough to insert it in your next number.
The circumstance was this--that in the right arm, instead of there
being a biceps muscle having two origins, the one the shorter from
the corocoid process, the other the longer from the upper part of
the glenoid cavity of the scapula, there was simply a one-headed
muscle arising from the corocoid process. I could find no tendon
passing through the joint answering to the long head of the
biceps, neither was there any appearance of a biceptical groove;
the capsular ligament was, perhaps, thicker than it is found in
ordinary cases.
I knew nothing of this man during life, and am therefore unable to
give any account of the use which he made of this arm.
I am, your obedient servant,
C. M. BURNETT.
House Surgeon's Apartments,
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Dec. 8th.