Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.
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Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.
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Crooke, Helkiah, 1576-1635.
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[London] :: Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican, and are there to be sold,
1615.
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"Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19628.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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The Muscles and Nerues scituated in the cauitie of the lower Belly. CHAP. XVIII.
BEside the Muscles of the Abdomen mentioned and but mentioned in the ninth Chapter of the second Booke, and the muscles of the Fundament named in the former Chapter, there are also other muscles appearing in the lower belly when the parts aboue named are remoued. And those are two paires lying vpon the spondels or rack-bones. The first is the sixt muscle moouing the thigh or the first of his benders, they are called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latine Lumbales. The second is the seauenth mouing the thigh or the se∣cond of his benders, and it is called Iliacus internus the inward flanke Muscle, of which wee shall heare more in the history of the muscles of the thigh.
At the sides of the loynes on either hand is a portion of the broade muscle called Latis∣simus, which draweth the arme backeward and downeward, vnder which lyeth the square muscle called Quadratus, which is the first muscle of the back. But in the very denne or ca∣uity it selfe is the muscle of the thigh, according to Vesalius, called obturator internus, and it
is the second muscle of those that turne the thigh about.
There are also two sorts of nerues dispersed through the lower belly. Some proceeding from the sixt paire of the marrow of the braine, from which are distributed branches to all the entralles herein contayned, of which wee haue spoken particularly in the particular hi∣storie, 2 yet their production and continuation shall bee better insisted vppon afterward. O∣ther sinewes there are arising from the marrow of the backe, as it is contayned in the racke∣bones of the Loynes and the holy-bone; wherfore these nerues are of 2. sorts, some of the loyns others of the holy-bone: Of the loynes sometimes foure sometimes fiue paire, of the 4 holy-bone alwayes fiue payre, of which we shall entreate in their proper place.