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 ...

Glutaeus Major.

THis is the first of the Extenders,* 1.1 the which with its other two doth make up the Fleshy Mass of the Buttocks, the Skin being laid bare, this shews its broad beginning, enated from diverse Bones: it ariseth from the whole Spine of the Os Ileon externally, then from the lower part of the Os Sacrum laterally; And thirdly, from the Os Coxendix large, and Fleshy, running obliquely down over the Juncture of the Os Coxendix; and growing narrower is implanted by a broad and strong Tendon into the first Impression of the great Rotator, and part of it also the Linea aspera.

Then we properly do affirm the Thigh to be extended,* 1.2 when it's brought outwards, (viz.) as when we stand as it were with divaricate Thighs, or Thighs that are placed at a distance.

This you have at Tab. 28. at C. C. C. a. a. a. Shews its upper part, b. b. Its other part, H. I. K. The same laid bare. H. H. H. The thick and Fleshy beginning of it, 1. 1. 1. Its thick Belly, K. K. Its Tendinous Substance.

Notes

• * 1.1

  This extends the Thigh obliquely backwards.
• * 1.2

  Ʋse.