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
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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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    In this TABLE arc ffiown the right Mufclcs of the Belly> with their Infcriptions., a$ alfo the Epigaftric and Mammary VefTels, which are confpi* cuous from their inner fide. Alfo the tranfverfe Mufcle of the Belly, fepajrate^ about its beginning, and the Pyramidal Mufcles in their Situation, ^ . The IV, TABLE, J he Explication ofthe FIGURE; A. T he tranfverfal or over thwart Mufcle, made looje about its beginning. b b b. Its beginning. c c. A portion of the Tendon. D. The right Mufcle. e. Its beginning. f f f. 'Nervous Ihfmptions. g. The End. H. The bacl^fide of the other right Mufcle, wherein. I. Shews the Dug Vein and Artery defending. kk. The Epigajlry Vein and Artery defending. ‘ » 11. The Concourfe or Anafomofs of the Veins. MM. The Perieonceum freedfrom the Mufcles. NNN. The Pyramidal Mufcles. OO. The productions ofthe Perito-> nee urn defending into the Cod. Tty* there are fixteen Mufiles of the Belly for the moftpart, at leaftand feldo- mer fourteen, when there are only three right Mufcles on either fide ; fomtimes eighteen, when there are five right ones round, on each fide. Fon* tanus found them all, folded and wrapped up in an Embryo or imper¬ fect birth. The firji Pair obliquely defendant, [or the external] fo called by reafon ofthe Fibres, which defeend obliquely from the upper to the lower part; covers all the Abdomen, on its own fide, feeing it is very great and broad. Its original is in the breaft, from the The Original lower part ofthe fixt, feventh and eight of the oblique Ribs, before they end in Griftles; and defending it arifes from fundry triangular begin- Mufile. nings, or fpires, [npar the great faw- fhap’d Mufcle ofthe Breft] which after¬ ward grow into one. And to every triangular fpire, from the fpaces between its Ribs, and Nerve is carry- ed. Moreover, it arifes alfo [a fmal fpace being inter- pofed] from the point ofthe tranfverfe proceflesof the Vertebra’s ofthe Loy ns. So largly is the begin¬ ning thereof fpread out, namely from the fixt Rib to the loweft Vertebra of the Loy ns. It ends in the middle of the Abdomen, its End. where a white line appears, and it ends into a large Tendon, an infinite company ofob- .ttr lique Fibres running together in that place] Now the white Line, which is fomtimes What tie fringed with fat, is the meeting together of white Ling the Tendons of the Mufcles of the Belly, is ? faving thofe of the right mufcles. For the Tendons of the oblique mufcles are united, and do ft? meet form both parts, that they form as it were a coat which covers the Belly, or as if it were but oneTen- don. It is white, becaufe void of flefh, proceeding from the Mucronata Cartilago or pointed Griftle which is lea- ted at the Sharebone : and it is narrower below the Navil then above. The two mufcles obliquely defcaident are bored through. i. At the Navil. 2. Ajc the Groyn in men, that the feed VefTels may pafs through; in Women, to give paflage to the two round and Nervy Ligaments of the Womb, which arc tempted in tfic Privity' hear the Nymphtf, ' * NqW