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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descriptionPage 147
Obliqui Inferiores.
THis lower pair ariseth longish,* 1.1 Fleshy, and thin from the
Spine of the second Vertebre of the Neck, and ob∣liquely
ascending, are inserted with the Obliqui Supe∣riores
into the transverse Process of the first Vertebre.
When these are contracted,* 1.2 they work it about the Spine
circularly, whence it is, that the Head consisting upon the same,
it is also moved circularly therewith to the sides; but because
these two pair are very small, the two former pair of Extensors,
they do help those in their Motion, as also those of the right,
as we have already shewn.
These you have at Tab. 25. Fig. 1. at F. And at d. d. you have
them at Fig. 2. ejusd. Tab.