A compleat treatise of the muscles : as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection; with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd. Illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / By John Browne.

  • John Browne
Date:
1681
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Credit: A compleat treatise of the muscles : as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection; with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd. Illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / By John Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    curity in Chimrgkd TraBice, -which are mojl cdnjenta- neons and genuine for the Indujlrious Traditioner, to lliidy and fearch ' after. 'This u as his bejt Compajs, ■whereby he may fail freely in the mam Ocean of hu^rt, mthout any nnftrujl or dread of fphttmg htmfelf upon any T^ch of danger, or Shelves of miflake, fonts by this alone, that »e arrive at and do gain how our Membranes are-made, and fpun out of Spermatic^ Fibres, and how out of Maternal Tloodnre framed our Mufcular parts. It is from this Tree of Know^ led<re all the diferences between a Vem and Artery are pluck up : Its 'this garden that affords us the various Flowers of Sfer'ves and Tendons, and fhews us the dijferent Teds of Ligaments and Tones : It's this Sun. that condutls the Vnder(landing, that advanceth the fame into JfeBion, that promotes our AffeBions towards our Makeri And come we hut to take a view^ and fur^ vey of the fymmetry of his parts, and therein but ca] our Eye and confider on the rare Offices and Vfes which are varioufly befiowed on them, we ought as wed infu^ dice, as in Teafon, to grant and allow, that mthmg in this zreat Vniverfe may or can furpafs hm, ejpecially _ in the exquifite Fabricfof his Mufiles, and the wariety of their Motion. ,, a ■ . UTow although Myology hath been by the Ancients thus ^aced, yet Steno hath quite altered the Fabrickof their' defgn, affirming, that there u m every Mujcle two oppofite Tendons, into which are mferted two kinds of Fibres, the which being clofely annexed do frame the Tendon, and in that part wherein they are loojely intertext, there they do allow of a conjlituted Efjfy planting one above another, here placing and dfpo mg the thicknefs and depth of the Flefh framing its latig tude, and declaring its order of Fibres ; and this Fi¬ gure he deferibes by a Mathematical Line, taking thence