A description of the muscles of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with the synonyma of Cowper, Winslow, Douglas, Albinus, and Innes, and the new nomenclature of Dumas, professor of anatomy at Montpellier : with prints and maps, showing the insertions of muscles / by Joseph Constantine Carpue.

  • Joseph Constantine Carpue
Date:
1801
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Credit: A description of the muscles of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with the synonyma of Cowper, Winslow, Douglas, Albinus, and Innes, and the new nomenclature of Dumas, professor of anatomy at Montpellier : with prints and maps, showing the insertions of muscles / by Joseph Constantine Carpue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *7 ) INNES. DUMAS. ALBINUS. DOUGLAS. WINSLOW. 74 1 ’ ■ Scalenus Scalenus Trachelo Scalenus Firjl Primus, or Anticus.* Cojlal. Prior. Scalenus. Prim a Coflas-X Firfl Scalenus. Inserted tendinous into the fourth, fifth, and fixth tranfverfe procefles of the cervical vertebrae, ahd is Inserted, tendinous, and flefliy, into the upper fide of the firfi rib, near its cartilage. Use. To bend the neck to one fide. 75' Scalenus Medius. Scalenus Medius. Second Scalenus. Trachelo Cojlal. Inserted, by feven tendons, into the (even tranfverfe procefles of the cervical vertebrae, and is Inser ted into the upper and outer part of the firft rib, within half an inch of the laft mentioned mufcle. Use. To bend the neck to one fide. (See Scalenus Poflicus.) Second Scalenus. Trapezius, feu Cucullaris. Occipiti Dorfo Clavi Sus Acromien. Cucullaris. Trapezius, feu-Cucullaris Trapezius. Trapezius. Inserted, flefhy, into the fuperior tranfverfe line of the os occipitis, into the five fuperior fpinous procefles of the neck, by mean$ of the pofterio- cervical ligament (ligamentum nuchae), into the two lafl fpinous procefles of the vertebrae of the neck ana thofe of the back. The fibres run in different directions, and are Inserted into one-third of the pofierior part of the clavicle, poflerior edge of the acromion, and into nearly the whole of the upper part of the fpine of the fcapula. Use. To raife the fhoulder, or rather to turn the top of the fcapula upwards, and to hinder it from finking. Latijfimus Dorji.t Dorf lumbo Sacro- Latijfimus Latijfimus Latijfimus ■humeral. Dorji. Dorf. Dorji. Latifimus- Dorfy feu- nnifcalptor. f V ] r , “VV Poirer'or Pari oi tne ipine ot the ilium, into the fpinous procefles of thefacrum and lumbar vertebrae, into the feven inferior fpinous procefTes of the back; tendinous and flethy into the extremities of the three or four inferior ribs, a little beyond their cartilages, by diftind flips, the inferior fibres afcend obliquely, and the fuperior run tranfverlely over the inferior angle of the fcapula, toward the axilla, where they are collected, tvvified, and folded/and are ' Inserted by a flrong flat tendon into the inner edge of the groove for lodging the long head of the biceps, Wl 1 tenYf the tCr? maJor* (Thele mufcles form the poflerior border of the hollow of the axifla, vulgarly called the armpit.) * Use. To pull the arm backwards and downwards, and fuftains the weight of the body in climbing, &c. Rhombotdeus * Scalenus PoA,cus> Pa8e No. 8g, the upper Insertion of these muscles fhould he difTeded with the muscles of the neck t e upper insertion of this muscle fhould not he differed here, but with the muscles of the arm. I Window describes the Scalenus Anticus anti Medius as one muscle. Plate IV. Plate IV. Plate V. Plate V,