Bartholinus anatomy; made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists; together with his own ... In four books and four manuals ... Also two epistles of the circulation of the [chyle and] blood / [by J. Walaeus] Being part of the first volumn of the Physitians Library, published by Nich. Culpeper Gent. and Abdiah Cole.
- Thomas Bartholin
- Date:
- 1662
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Credit: Bartholinus anatomy; made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists; together with his own ... In four books and four manuals ... Also two epistles of the circulation of the [chyle and] blood / [by J. Walaeus] Being part of the first volumn of the Physitians Library, published by Nich. Culpeper Gent. and Abdiah Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![n^eum, that the parts beneath them, may not be tool It is a membrane, and that fufficiently r/j/w and jo/>, much burchened. Now Columbus charges FaUopitts, that it may not be burthenfom j but Jlrong and compabi, that he would have thefe mufcles ferve to erect the tliat it maybe loofned and diftended. It ts thicker tft Yard, whereas that is Maffa his Opinion [ whofe O-1 f^omen^ from the KaviJ to the Share, that it may ftretch •pinion'is followed by F/«d, becaufeof the lituacion of the more, when they are with Child j in men that are thefe Mufcles] but they cannot ferve for that intent, be- great Feeders efpecially, it is thicker from the Mucro^ cattle they reach not the forelaid part, and becaufe they ;y r are found likewife in Women. I The fifth pare called the Tranfvcrfe The tranfverfe I Mufcles, being loweft in fituation, do Mufcles. 1 arife from a certain Ligament which ! fprings out of the Qs facrum, and co- vCts the Mufculus facrolumbus,zl{o from the lowell:R.ibj • and the Os lit]. They end by a membranous Tendon, into the white Line, and do ftick extream fall to the Peritonaeum, every where lave about the Share. The proper of thefe Mufcles» is to comprefs the Gut Colon. J The Action of all the Mufcles of the Belly, is as it were twofold, i. Ane- quable Retenlion and Compreffion of the Parts in the Belly : For they all aCt together, the Midriff aflifting them,and The ABion of the mufcles of the BeUy. nata Cartilago,. to the Navil, Laurentius conceives for the Stomachs.fake, which notwithftanding^ is hardly probable; for it was fit the lower part fhould be thic¬ ker,leaft while we ftand, it fhould become flackned and loofned by the weight of the Bowels. Some will have the Peritonaeum to be made of a li¬ gamentous and nervous Subftance; cr/jerr of Nerves only ; others only of Ligaments 5 others ot the Coats .of the Brain. The Shape of the Peritonaeum is oval; For it is like a Bladder,or a long-fafhio- ned Egg. For it compaffes all the lo¬ wer Belly, and therefore it is anfwerable thereunto in Longitude and Latitude. Its Surface is inwardly fmooth, and j as it were daubed with moifture,by rea- 1 fon oftheGuts which it touchethi without it is fibr^is. The Shape cf the Perito-' meum. Its Surface. this is the reafon why the Fibres of all the Mufcles, do j and a little rough, that it may be faftned with the muf- meet together in one and the fame Centre, according, cles. as they are thus defcribed by Robert Find =* Its Original is at the Back-bone, at rite Origind. Why there are divers mufcles of the Belly} 2, The Second ACfion follows up-[firft and third Vertebraes of the Loins, on the former, viz. the voidance of i where the Peritoua.'um is thicker; fo that it cannot in Excrements. And becaufe the num- ithat place be feparated without breaking, ber of parts to be compreffed is great, | , Ims knit alfo above moft plofely to ( Connexion. I as the Guts, • r,nP Womb> Bladder; one Mufcle could notfuffice, bur there was need of divers, adling in divers places, according to divers Angels : I Right, tranfverfe, oblique. Ev^ry A Preoccupation. the Diaphragma ( and therefore when it is inflamed, the Hypochondria are drawn upwards ) beneath to the Share-bone and the Os llij ; before, to the white Line and the Tendons of the tranfverfe muf- paTt indeed hath an expulfive Po-' cles. . . . • wer ; but thofe parts which are hoi- [ Now it is in al places doublefand Lau-^ 1 It is double. itius with Cabrofius make al Membranes | low, and often, and much binthened, do need the help f^f^tus of thefe mufcles of Worms, ofUrin are apparent from their Fabrkk. But' difeerned; But from the Navil to the Share, it is mani- Naturefpmtimesabufesthemalcles, to feftly divided into two Coats, fodiftant, that in their move die Cheft, when therefls need of a capacious doubleing the Bladder is contained, which great and violent Expiration, as in Out- hath been obferved by few : And that was fo ordered. ■ . ^ . - q;hat the membrane might be ftronger there, where A Secondary abiion of the mufcles of the Belly. \ cries, Coughs, and the like. For then they do not a little comprefs the Cheft. Their Ule. They are of an hot and moift Tempe¬ rament. becaufe flelh is prevalent in them; And there- _fore they cherifh Heat and Conceblion : They are mode¬ rately thick ; and therefore they defend rhe Parts, and are a Safeguard to tliem, even when they reft : Alfo they conduce to the Comlynefs of the Body : And therefore extream Fat, dropfied Perfons, fuch as are very lean, §cc. are deformed. CHAP, vn, Touching the Teritomeum, Ptritonaum., how fi called} Guts, A LI the Mufcles of the Abdomen being removed, the Peritoneum comes in fight, being fpread over the and having its Name a circumtendendo, from ftrecching and fpreading about, becaufe it is drawn o- .veralUhofe parts, which are between the Midriff and the Thighs.. Now .the is a membrane I. it is btirthened. 2. That the umbelical Veffd.s, w'hich run out there, maybe carried morefafely : For they pals through the Doublings of the Pcritonjeum.Tliere- fore alfo. The Peritonaeum is boared through before In a Child which is in the Womb : Alfo above it hath holes,where it grows to the Diaphragma, for the paf- lage of the V Q&\s.Perneltus hath therefore The Error of done ill ro contradidt Galen, in denying Fernelius. that the Peritonaeum hath Holes. They How many are three ; The firft where Fcf«4 c4'i'4 Holes there paffes through; The fecond where the are ? Stomach paffes; The third where the great Artery and the Sixt pare of the Nerves do pafr through the Midriff. Beneath about the Fundament, the Neck of the Bladder and Womb, and the Veflels which pafs through the Peritonaeum to the Thighs, the Mufcles of the Abdomen and the Skin. It hath two oblong Procejfes or Pro- j Its Produblions. duftions, like Pipes and w'idc Chan- | nels, defeending in men, into the Cod, by the Holes of the Tendojjsof the oblique and tranfverfe mufcles, in which produdfions ( call’d by the Ancients Didymi) _ the Seminary Veflels defeend and run back, and near V/l},tt'iiti} * which dotSdoaththe Bowels of tbelo- the Scones: Thefe produdfions are more widened,and ' wer Bel .’y. 'become the Coats ofiheTeftides, Where- I ■ ^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30333696_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
