The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.
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The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.
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Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
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Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford ... London,
1698.
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Human anatomy -- Atlases.
Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34837.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.
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Fig. 4.
A Portion of the Medulla Oblongata cut off, and divided laterally according to its Length; exprest somwhat bigger than the Life.
A A, The Upper Part of the Medulla Oblongata.
B B, The Fore and Back Part.
C C, The Nervous Fibrillae arising from the Fore, and Back Part of the Spinal Marrow.
D D, The Inferior Part of the Spinal Marrow cut off.
E E, Portions of the Dura Mater left, to shew its Perforations for the Nerves, as they pass out of the Specus of the Vertebrae.
F F F, The Plexus Ganglioso••mes of the Nerves at their Egress from between the Vertebrae: Two or Three of the Bodies of the Nerves themselves are exprest in this Figure pinn'd out.
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