The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden].

  • William Cheselden
Date:
1732
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    45/454 page 25
    4 mpitaF bones of the trunk are thofe which 4 compofe the {pine or chain of bones from > the head down to the rump, the ribs and Ster- num. | pene neh Tne fpine, is compofed of twenty four Ver- tebrz, (each of which in a young child is three bones) befides thofe of the Os Sacrum and Coc- cygis;. feven belong to. the neck, the firft of which is called Atlas, the fecond Dentata, from Tab.iv.G. a procefs in that bone bearing the fame name 3 | twelve to the back, five. to the loins: The Os Tab.iv. - Sacrum is fometimes five, fometimes fix bones, ai and the Os Coccygis four. If this chain had been compofed of fewer bones, they muft have either not been capable of bending fo much as they do, or haye bent at lefs obtufe angles, which would have prefs’d the fpinal marrow. : In all thefe Vertebra, except the firft, is a Tab. iv. middle anterior fpongy body, by which they are H.1LK, firmly articulated with a very {trong intervening ligament; and from the middle of the hind part of each, except the firft, ftands a procefs named Spinalis, and from every one a procefs on each 4. fide, called Tranfverfalis, and two fuperior, and 2, two inferior fhort ones; by which the back parts i aa CUR as ar of Tab. i. ii.
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image