The first which is placed before the great toe, is adarticulated to the inner bone of the wrest; that which is placed before the next to the great toe, is ioyned to the second bone of the wrest; that which is placed before the middle toe to the third, [fig. 2 betwixt ρ π] the other two are adarticulated to the Cube-bone. [Fig. 2 neere ρ and n] And as the bones of the VVrest of the foote are not placed on the foreside in a right line, so of the bones of the After-wrest one enclineth more backward then another. Notwithstanding, they stand in one order or ranke as do the bones of the Toes, which maketh much to sta∣bility and firmitude.
They are long bones and round, and end on both sides into heads. For where they are articulated with the bones of the wrest they are thicke and sinewated and ioyned together by their sides, where they recede or depart by degrees one from another, they become slender and leaue a distance betweene them for the Muscles called Interossei, which wee called the Bone-bound Muscles. But their lower heads which are inserted into the deepe bosomes of the first ioynts of the Toes [fig. 1, 2 ξ in φ] are orbicular, and on the backside encreased with an Appendix. The heads of these bones are more diuided towards the vpper part and lesse toward the lower, quite contrary to that it is in the handes, and the reason was because in detxention it behooued that the Toes of the feete should be more eleuated then the fingers of the hand, which kinde of articulation we call Enarthrosis or Inarticulation.
The first of these that is set before the great toe, is the thickest of them all & the shor∣test, hauing a rounder head, that so the great toe might bee better mooued to the sides then any of the rest. In the lower part vnder the heade, where it is articulated vvith the Tarsus or wrest it buncheth out into a processe [fig. 2 π] wherevnto is inserted the tendon of the seuenth muscle of the foote, and at the same place there are two Seedebones grea∣ter then the rest, and crusted ouer with a gristle.
The second bone of the Afterwrest which sustaineth the foretoe is the longest, vnlesse it be the fift which sustaineth the little toe; for the length of this last is encreased by a no∣table processe, [figure. 2 ρ] whereby it was articulated to the wrest, because it was to bee lengthned into the outside of the foote to make a place of implantation for the tendon of the eight muscle of the foote. These bones of the Afterwrest aboue and belowe, haue Appendices crusted ouer with gristles: their substance also and their cauity which con∣teyneth their marrow is answerable to the substance and cauity of the bones of the Af∣terwrest of the Hand. Moreouer they are thrilled with small holes, by which little veines and arteries, as in other bones, do passe in to nourish and cherish them.
After the bones of the Afterwrest doe follow the bones of the toes which make the third part of the foote and are in number fourteene [fig. 1 • Ε. fig. 2 Λ, Ε] for euerie one of them consisteth of three bones, as it is in the fingers of the hand excepting the great toe; [fig. 1, 2, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] and indeed their substance, structure and situation is litle different from the hād, sauing that the first ioynts haue a deeper sinus because the deeper heads of the bones of the pedium or Afterwrest are inserted into them. And although the heads of the bones of the foot are large, yet is not their sinus so large as in the hands, that so in extention the toes might be more lifted vp, and yeeld something to the ground vpon which we stande. The great toe is formed of two bones [fig. 1 Φ χ] that the foreside of the cauity of the Af∣terwrest might more firmely rest vpon the earth. All these Bones aboue and below haue Appendices, and are crusted ouer with strong gristles to make the ioynt more glib which is articulated by Ginglymos, alwayes excepting the last bones of the toes, which are not articulated to any other bone, but haue nayles cleaning vnto them. Note also, that the knuckles of the toes are shorter then those of the hands, gibbous aboue and hollowe be∣lowe, the better to admit the Tendons of the muscles which bend the second and thirde ioynts. Againe, the first bones are greater then the second, and the second greater then the third, and the middle bone in foure toes seemeth to be square. In like manner, the bones of the great toe are thicker then the bones of the thumbe: the rest of the bones of the toes are lesser then the bones of the fingers. Finally, the bones of the toes are also full of marrow.