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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![© Korn Anatomy is able to jbe % us, that not only in the Seeds of Vegetables, but in # the Seeds of Animals alfo, the individual Species and by confluence, that all Generation is ft til the Work of the C R E A 1 O R, Who VMlo’thft ^Anatomical Adminiftrations, an more Theological than every one imagines, and do elegantly differ the Wifdom and Art of the Divne Potter, ■who formed the beautiful Statue of Man out of Clay. , ' lid not only thofe Mufcles which enable the Mouth to fpeak, and the Hands to Urite but ad of them (which were fo wonderfully made by God and are fo neatly deh- neatedbyyou) do empower and inferuBus to fpeak and fe Halkluphs _ And they infuce me to efteem and praife this sour Mulculary Trait, therein, by im¬ printing the Name upon,and addmg the Ul1 to each Mufcle you render the Study of this pan of Anatomy Jo eafy and delightful, that not only Students in Medicine and Chvrurnery, hut alfo Ingenious Gentlemen, who are curious, and defire to um derjland how thy Mo\eand Ait, Will be incouraged to enquire into it, and tofludy it. Tba wdl be pleafed with the Contemplations which Muicular Motion may raife and fuggefl unto than-, and will admire the Arguments that feme Arijpials, which we commonly call Irrational, do frame by the managment of them Mufcles, to ^’r0 So theW oft-Vlh, when he perceives the T>efegnofMje Fifhtrman, and the dan- v or of his Nett, froots to the bottom of the Water, and furrows the Sand with his Tavl till he hath lodged himfelf in it below the reach of the Nett. Sohkewife the Pontian Fox, who lives by his Wit, when he fees a Booty near, claps and involves his Head between his Legs a,id erects his Tayl and binds u at the lop fo as to make the Refemblance -of a Bird, by which he emboldens the Fowl to approach him as one of their Kind, and Jo makes them h,s Prey. So that they f ern to confirm the Opinion, that the Supream Faculty oj the Hu- * mane Soul ■and that which dfeinguijbeth Man and Brute, is a Mind (a Power a- hove that of Rational) capable of Supernatural, and Heavenly'Contemplation, is-c. 'But there is a more far piling Confederation of the Mufcles, that without the Ufe and Motion of that admirable Engine, the Hand, Mankind would^uickly lofe that Dominion which God hath given him, over all Other Animals: His Strength would not’defend In*, from the Sting of Punees nor hisWifdom guard him from the Infults of an ASe, or the Kicks of an Afs: The wild Beafes would hunt him, and make him them Game, fo that lie Would in the next gemratuf, ccafe to be, or become as it were a Btuite. • rr, ft, , „ , . r, , In Sum whether we refpeB the ufeful, or plcafmt Knowledge oj Muicular Mo* tion ’twill be highly Satisfactory to the Studious; there fM this your Ingenious and Curious Way o] expofeng it, merjfs both pubhek Air and Eulogy, which is the fife Sentiment of a Lover of yo§r Art and Induftry^ A Edmund Dickinfon, M. D. Lately -Phyfitian to the Perfons and Families of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30324737_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
