Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
- John Browne
- Date:
- 1698
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![, V intertext, and fo dexteroufly intermixt in the Body, that !°ar® fltrilUhele intertextures Plexus, or Wells, they being plainly A idoutlie mfelves into various Ramifications, the u fe or which Zv r s Sf enR and diftribute a Liquor which does bedew all the , i C.WRndo even to their terminations • which Liquor, without Inins of the fi'evenT )ubtile’and volatile parts of the “i*e »*»= a»».i SP™, i» SUAndywhereas we readily fee that the greateft part of the Nerves do n In nrnous or flelhy bodies, which are cove, d over with fine Mem- b n s which faid bodfes we commonly call Mujcles fo muft we grant, tl at thele Mufcles have both Arteries, Verves, and Veins allow d them ; but how thele are rank’d in them, is worthy our remark and obfervation. Thev a firft appearing to our view as fo many- collective Bodies, run as k were into one Chord or String, whilft at other places they are found more loofe, and kept at a diftance, efpecially where they take in their Arteries and Veins, after which alfo they plainly appear to gro ^ cloler * nrj n enr] do torm a Tendinous Chord. The fi ft and (econd Sfe e.S “«*», o, ,h„ Heads and Tads of Mufete; Whilft thofe parts which are more loofely made, and into which bo.h the Arteries and Veins do difperle themielves, are more pi operly call d, the Bei havfogttomuch’d Upon th s Verves, Art cries, Feins and the car- n S wirh a relation to the Tendinous Fibres, we flaall next look fnmtholeVi^er which are feen to run parallel in all thefe Bodies, where we may find, as they are implanted into them, they do frame an ob- liquangular Parallelogram in the Body of the Mufcle, whilft the other Tendons, which are more clofely put together, do naturally referable two Strings drawing this obliquanguiar Parallelogram to its oppofite Tides 4nd whereas the Tendons of Mufcles are nothing more than the connexions and meetings of Ample Hires, which we commonly call Tendinous Fibres, fo the Interlpaces made in the Belly of the Mufcles are all of them fill’d with Arteries and Veins- and hence ariieth the diffe¬ rence of their colours,for that as the common colour of the Tendons of the Mufcles is ufually of a whitilh brown; fo their Bellies for the moft part ...pear red which rednefs of Flefli in thefe parts is no otherwife occa- Z-j than is that of a Glafs fill'd with red Wine, in that as the Glafs is made’red by the colour of the Wine put into it, fo alfo does this Flefh become reddifli by the Blood that it conftantly receives from the Arte¬ ries and Veins belonging to it; all which will plainly appear by tnjeding warm Water into the Arteries and Veins, whole Branches being plentiful¬ ly difperft throughout thele flelhy parts, altho they allow it that reddilh colour it plainly feems to bear, yet by frequent injedhng into the find Veflels as I faid before, and repeating the fame, ycu will evidently dif- cover the rednefs to abate, and lofe its colour, and at length naturally exprefs the lame colour with the other parts of the Tendons Nor are the Mufcles made of Arteries, Veins, and Tendinous Fibres on¬ ly but have Nerves alfo given them, which branching and palling into their outward Coats, are fometimes feen to reach the Tendinous Fibres, and the Tendons themielves; yea, many times they are found to be in¬ ferred into the very Bodies of the Mufcles: And Borellus allows it as a gene*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30324737_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
