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 answering to the said books / ... Published by Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole.

Thomas Bartholin

Date:: 1668

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 answering to the said books / ... Published by Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$<45* ♦*4f’^5*********»*;»******i * * *******-*'*4;‘^,***,®“i?**,**'*,**'S’^‘5' F ourth THE OF THE BO And aifo of the Griftles and Anfwering the FOURTH Of the Limbs. The re*fort of the Authors Method. Why he treats iaft of the Bones. i TNtbe tafl place, I fhall briefly (as I have done other things) explain the Do&rine of the Bones. In the laft place, I fay, becaufe when all things elfe are removed and fep.irated, then only the‘..Sower come in view, and are fubjeclto examination. The molt dili¬ gent Bjolams treats in two places of his Enchiridion, of the Bones, once as they appear in the dead Carkas, when the Mufcles are cut off, and again as they are dried in a Skeleton.But this Oftentation is fuperfluous in a compen¬ dium. For by the fame reafon we (hould make a new A- natomical difeourfe, of the Veins, Arteries, Nerves,Guts, Stomach, Womb, and other Parts taken out, and dried, and commonly hung up for flyew in the AnatmoicalThea- tres. There is no ufe of the latter Doftrine of the Bones, unlefs to help the Memory, nor is it perfeftly underftood without the former. And therefore other Anatomifls, with the parts demonflrate theBones lying beneath them, in the dead body. I fhal therefore only bulie my felf with the firft, and therewith. Tovn the Doftrine of Griftles and Ligamentsj J J l. Becaufe of the fimilitude of their fubftance.- for thefe three (imilar parts are very neer of kin, A Bone, a Griflle, and a Ligament, fo that they ] feem to differ only gradually in refpeft ] of more and lefs one from another. For a Bone is the havdeft, xCnftle, a little fofter, yet fo as that it mav turn to a BoVe, as we fee in the tender Bones of Infants, which at firft were grifty. A Ligament is yet H,rhy he treats of the Grifltes and Ligaments with the Bones. fofter than a Griflle, which alfo it felf fomtimes turns to a Bone, as in decrepit Perfons. Hence many attribute the fame matter to a Bone, a Griflle, a Ligament, yea and a Tendon. i. Becaufe of the Nearnefs of Place; for a Bone, a Griflle, and a Ligament do for the moft part accompany one another, and are found joyned together. For the Bones are tied with the Ligaments, and where they are ti¬ ed, they are covered about their Heads, with a Griflly Ctufl or Cover. CHAP. I. Of the‘Bones in General. THe Nature of the Bones is eafily known, if we fhal but orderly propound their Caufes and Accidents or Adjuncts. *- The Matter out of which the Bones are bred in the Womb, according to Hippocrettes,\s an earthy Excrement, with Fat and Moifture added thereto. Ariftotle alfo calls it Excrementttmfeminale, an excrement of the i’eed. Ga¬ len faies it is the thicker and harder part of the Seed dri- Now fome Bones are perfectly generated in the Womb, as thofe in the Eat which ferve the Senfe ofHearing,being the fmalleft in the whole body ; others imperfectly, as the Teeth and all the reft of the Bones, in which at fir ft fom- what is wanting, either a procefs, or an Appendix. &c. - Moreover$