Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints. / By John Bell, surgeon.

  • John Bell
Date:
MDCCXCIV. [1794]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints. / By John Bell, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    which is fonnc'd by the meeting-of the Lambdoida] A and Sag’/:.; atures; but, as they do not crofs, there are here but 3 converg- ing lines;'three angles or points of bone; no perceptible opening, but the bones rather lamping over each other. It is over this point jhat the hair turns in a Fontanelle was thought to prefent in labour, this back Fontanelle is the true pre- fenting point. (r) Marks a fm'all Fontanelle, or membraneous interflice before the ear; and (d) Marks another fmall Fontanelle behind the ear, in the place of -the Additamentum Suturse Squamofae; and it is the more to be remarked, as it is through this little Fontanelle, that the accoucheur opens the head in the rf^ coincidence of preternatural pofture of the child, and deformed Pelvis; where after delivering the body, it is impoflible to get the head out; and he prefers this opening, and ftiuns the back Fontanelle, left, in piercing there, he fhould cut the ligament of the neck, and fo lofe his hold of the head. fort of vertex, if we may be allowed to explain it fo ; and though the greater PLATE IL
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