The Practitioner . tor and secretory infunction. In addition, the sympathetic cords give branches, eitherdirectly or through the great pre-vertebral ganglia (the cardiac,solar and hypogastric plexuses) to the various glands andviscera of the body, to the heart and blood-vessels, to thegenital organs, and to the non-striped muscles of the bodygenerally. Lastly, the cemcal part of the sympathetic chain has veryspecial oculo-pupillarj fibres, which are clinically of con-siderable importance. These supply the dilator pupilia^, thenon-striped part of the levator palpebral superioris, and theorbital
The Practitioner . tor and secretory infunction. In addition, the sympathetic cords give branches, eitherdirectly or through the great pre-vertebral ganglia (the cardiac,solar and hypogastric plexuses) to the various glands andviscera of the body, to the heart and blood-vessels, to thegenital organs, and to the non-striped muscles of the bodygenerally. Lastly, the cemcal part of the sympathetic chain has veryspecial oculo-pupillarj fibres, which are clinically of con-siderable importance. These supply the dilator pupilia^, thenon-striped part of the levator palpebral superioris, and theorbital muscle of Miiller, a small bundle of non-striped musclewhich lies behind the globe of the eye and bridges acrossthe spheno maxillary fissure at the back of the orbit. Thecervical sympathetic also supplies the submaxillary gland, and,like the sympathetic elsewhere, it supplies fibres to the cutaneousblood-vessels and to the sweat glands of the head and neck. The pupil-dilating fibres have a peculiar course which it. Fig. important to remember {see Fig. i). Starting from the Plate XVI.
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