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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Title: 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.
Author: Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford ... London,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Human anatomy -- Atlases.; Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Fig. 1.

The Fore-part of the Left Thigh-bone.

A, The Upper Appendix of the Thigh-bone, call'd its Head, cover'd with a Cartilage, which is receiv'd in the Acetabulum of the Os Innominatum, Tab. 99. Fig. 2. A B B.

The Round Ligament Arising from the Inferior Part of the Acetabulum, is In∣serted near the Middle of this Head of the Thigh-bone, Fig. 2. B. This Articu∣lation of the Thigh-bone with the Hip-bone, is call'd Enarthrosis.

B, The Trochanter Major, which in Young Bodies Appears join'd with a Car∣tilage to the Thigh-bone, and is therefore call'd an Epiphysis or Appendix.

C, The Cervix or Neck of the Os Femoris, to which the Ligamentum Latum is Fasten'd.

D E, The Inferior Appendix of the Os Femoris, Framing Two Heads: The Smooth Cartilaginous Surface which Appears between them, receives the Inter∣nal Surface of the Patella, Fig. 4.

F, A Sinus whence the Musculus Poplitaeus has its Tendinous Origin.