A compleat treatise of the muscles as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd : illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / by John Browne ...

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A compleat treatise of the muscles as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd : illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / by John Browne ...
Author
Browne, John, 1642-ca. 1700.
Publication
In the Savoy :: Printed by Tho. Newcombe for the author,
1681.
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Subject terms
Muscles.
Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"A compleat treatise of the muscles as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd : illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / by John Browne ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29838.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Page 21

Attollens Aurem.

AS the Eyes are placed in the forepart of the Head as Watchmen to guard the Body,* 1.1 so also hath our wise Creator planted two Ears at the sides thereof for the better perception of Sounds, and a more ready passage to hear∣ing, to the better performance of which there are hereto given variety of Muscles; amongst which, this is reckoned as the first, it arising from the External Termination of the Frontal Muscle, and so being thin and Membranous, is carried over the Temporal Muscle, and is inserted growing narrower into the upper part of the Ear,* 1.2 moving it upwards and forwards

This Muscle you have exactly delineated at Tab. 6. Fig. 4. at H. and at S. Tab. 7. Fig. 1. you have the same again.

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