CHAP. II. Of the containing, and contained parts of the Chest.
THe containing parts of the chest are both the skinnes, the fleshie pannicle, the fat, the breasts, the common coate of the muscles, the muscles of that * 1.1 place, the forementioned bones, the coate investing the ribbes and the Diaphragma or midriffe. The parts contained are the Mediastinum, the Pericardium or purse of the heart, the heart, the lungs & their vessels. Of the containing parts, some are common to all the body, or the most part thereof, as both the skins, the fleshie pannicle and fat. Of which being we have spoken in our first Booke, there is no neede now further to insist upon; Others are proper to the chest, as its muscles, of which we will speake in their place, the brests, the forementioned bones, the membrane investigating the ribs, and the Diaphragma or midriffe.
Wee will treate of all these in order, after we have first shewed you the way, how you may separate the skinne from the rest of the chest. Putting your knife downe even to the perfect division of the skinne, you must draw a straite line from the upper part of the lower belley, even to the chinne; then draw another straight line, over∣twhart at the collar bones even to the shoulder-blades; and in the places beneath the collar-bones: (if you desire to shunne prolixitie) you may at once separate both the skinnes, the fleshie pannicle, the fat, and common coate of the muscles; because these parts were shewed and spoken of in the dissection of the lower belley.
Yet you must reserve the brests in dissecting of the bodies of women; wherefore from the upper parts of the breasts, as artificially as you can, separate onely the skin from the parts lying under it, that so you may shew the Pannicle which there be∣commeth fleshie and musculous, and is so spred over the necke, and parts of the face, even to the rootes of the haires.