The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. : With an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended. To which is added, The anatomy and description of a rattlesnake : Also of the musk-hog. With a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm. And two letters concerning a monstrous birth, and preternatural conception : With reflections thereon. The second edition. / Being the works of Edward Tyson, M.D. F.R.S. Adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. Vander Gucht.

  • Edward Tyson
Date:
1751
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Credit: The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. : With an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended. To which is added, The anatomy and description of a rattlesnake : Also of the musk-hog. With a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm. And two letters concerning a monstrous birth, and preternatural conception : With reflections thereon. The second edition. / Being the works of Edward Tyson, M.D. F.R.S. Adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. Vander Gucht. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Trimdivides into the Iliac Branches* So the Vena Cava too in our Pyg mie exactly imitated that in a Man. How the Strutture of thefe Veffels are in Monkeys, the Parifiansdo not tell us5 and their figure is very imperfect 5 as is likewife that in Blafius, which feems altogether fittitious. What he writes,is this $ Arteria magna circa Renem dextrum fuccurnbit Vence Cava, <& ubi Iliacos Ramos conflituit eandem fupergreditur 5 contra ac in Homine, Cane, aliifque animalibusfieri reperimus, ubi finiftra occupat, hinc a finifira ad dextram progreditur fiupra Arteriam. So Drelincourt tells us in the Male Ape, Aorta dcfcendens max atque hi furcatur equitat, & adfcendenti Cav<e incumbit. We come now to the Parts of Generation ^ and (hall begin with the Vafa Pr&parantia i, The Arteries and Veins. The Spermatic Arteries in our Pygmie do both arife out of the Trunk of the Aorta, a little below the Emulgent Arteries, as in our figure $ and after having ran a little way,they meet with the Spermatic Vein 5 and are both included in a common Cap- fula, and fo do defcend to the Tefies. Thefe Arteries do carry the blood to the Tefies, from whence the Semen is afterwards feparated 5 the reft- due of the Blood is return’d from the Tefies by the Spermatic Veins $ whereof that on the right fide enters into the Trunk of the Vena Cava, a little below the right Emulgent Vein $ and that of the left, is emptied into the left Emulgent Vein , juft all one as it is in a Humane Body. Ha¬ ving in jetted the Spermatic Vein with Mercury, it difcovered abundance of Velfels, running waving 5 which otherwife did not appear : and a great many of them were extreamly fine and fmall. The Parifians give no defcription of the Spermatic Veffels in their Mon¬ keys $ and in their figure the left Spermatic Vein is omitted, or left out, Thomas Bartholine (67) in his Anatomy of a Mamomet (which he de- fcribes, as not having a Tail 5 and therefore it muft be of the Ape-Ydnd, and not a Cercopithecw, or a Monkey, as he calls it) in his figure of thefe parts, reprefents the left Spermatic Vein, emptying it felf into the left Emulgent, as it is in our Creature. Blafius therefore in the account of the Ape he dilfetted, muft be miftaken $ both in his figure and defcription too $ for in the former, he reprefents the left Spermatic Vein running in¬ to the Trunk of the Cava $ and juftifies it in the latter $ in telling us, Vafa Spermatic a utroque latere ex Trunco Cav£ Aort<e oriuntur, '& quidem altiori loco ea qu£ funt later?? dextri, inferiore qua finifiri. But Drelincourt certainly is more in the right, who informs us, that in the Male Ape he dilfetted. Vena Spermatica dextra crajfa, & ab interiori trunco Cava adfcen- dent?s pollice inf'a Emulgentem fimfiram enafcitur , furculofque emittit fini- firos in Membranas vicinas. Arteria Spermatica dextra a trunco anteriori (fi) Tlxm.Barffoljno Afta Africa fo Pkllog Mafnienf. an. 1691.fo i5]Z. Obt $6.