The cutaneous maximus covers the dorsal region of the cat and allows it to shake its skin. The platysma covers the neck and allows the cat to stretch the skin over the pectoralis major and deltoid muscles. Neck and back
Rhomboideus
The rhomboideus is a thick, large muscle below the trapezius muscles. It extends from the vertebral border of the scapula to the mid-dorsal line. Its origin is from the neural spines of the first four thoracic vertebrae, and its insertion is at the vertebral border of the scapula. Its action is to draw the scapula to the dorsal. Rhomboideus capitis
The Rhomboideus capitis is the most cranial of the deeper muscles. It is underneath the clavotrapezius. Its origin is the superior nuchal line, and its insertion is at the scapula. Action draws scapula cranially. Splenius
The Splenius is the most superficial of all the deep muscles. It is a thin, broad sheet of muscle underneath the clavotrapezius and deflecting it. It is crossed also by the rhomboideus capitis. Its origin is the mid-dorsal line of the neck and fascia. The insertion is the superior nuchal line and atlas. It raises or turns the head. Serratus ventralis
The serratus ventralis is exposed by cutting the wing-like latissimus dorsi. The said muscle is covered entirely by adipose tissue. The origin is from the first nine or ten ribs and from part of the cervical vertebrae. Serratus Dorsalis
The serratus dorsalis is medial to both the scapula and the serratus ventralis.
History
Although there were earlier clinical accounts of this disease, and descriptions and illustrations of the posterior columns of the spinal cord, it was the Berlin neurologist Romberg whose account became the classical textbook description, first published in German and later translated into English.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, completed his doctorate on tabes dorsalis in 1885.

Notable patients
German storywriter E.T.A. Hoffmann appears to have had and died from tabes dorsalis. The French novelist Alphonse Daudet kept a journal of the pain he experienced from this condition which was posthumously published as La Doulou (1930) and translated into English as In the Land of Pain (2002) by Julian Barnes. Poet Charles Baudelaire contracted syphilis in 1839 and resorted to opium to help alleviate the pain of tabes dorsalis ascending his spine. Painter Édouard Manet died of syphilis complications, including tabes dorsalis, in 1883, aged 51. Boxer Charley Mitchell
Meyer Nudelman, the father of author and doctor Sherwin Nuland, who described his fathers condition extensively in his book Lost in America; A Journey with my Father (2003). See also
General paresis of the insane
Category:Deaths from tabes dorsalis

References
tabes_dorsalis at NINDS
An Essay Upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis by Arthur Conan Doyle


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