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The anatomy of the human bones and nerves, with an account of the reciprocal motions of the heart, and a description of the human lacteal sac and duct / by Alexander Monro.

Alexander Monro

Date:: 1741

Credit: The anatomy of the human bones and nerves, with an account of the reciprocal motions of the heart, and a description of the human lacteal sac and duct / by Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$where it ends ina fharp pointed little Procefs; and the inferior Angle is not completed. _ The internal Side of this Bafe is adapted to’ he preceding Bone; and the external Side has ilfo two {mooth Surfaces covered with Car- llage, but of a different Figure; for the fupe- ‘lor is concave, and being round behind, turns Maller as it advances forwards; and the little nferior fmooth Surface.is convex, and very lear the Edge of the Bafe. < Os metatarfi of the fourth Toe is year as long as the former, with a 4¢é digit’. Tiangular flanting Bafe joined to the 2s cuboides, and made round at its external Angle, with one hollow fmooth Surface on _ ‘he Outfide, where it is preffed on by the fol- lowing Bone, .and with two on the internal ide, corre{ponding to the former Bone; be- lind which, is a long narrow Surface impref= ed by the US cuneiforme exteruum., Os metatarfi of the little ‘Toe is he fhorteft, fituated with itstwo Minimi digitie flat Sides above and below, and with the Ridges laterally. ‘The Bafe of it, Part ot which reits on the Os cuboides,is very large, tuberous, and produced into a long pointed Procefs externally; whence Part of the Abdu- itor wtinimi digit: has_its Origin; and into its — fuperior Part the Peroweus fecuzdus is inferted. [ts Infide has a flat conoidal Surface, where it is adjoining to the preceding Bone., ~ When we ftand, the anterior Extre- Mities of thefe metatarfal Bones, and the wys. Os calcis, are our only Supporters, and therefore it is neceflary they fhould be ftrong, : ce and$