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, 2.

ONE of the Mammae or Breasts of both Sexes; some distinguish them by their Denominations, calling that of a Woman Fig. 1. Mamma, and that of a Man Fig. 2. Mammilla: We common∣ly call them the Breasts; but in Woman Dugs.

A A, A Portion of the Skin Rais'd and Pinn'd out, to shew its Inside.

B B, The Protuberant Parts of the Breasts of both Sexes, in which that of the Woman exceeds that of a Man.

C C, The Papillae, or Nipples; the Difference in the Magnitude of which, is very Conspicuous.

D D, The Areolae whose Difference is here very well Exprest between the Man and the Woman, as they appear to the naked Eye.

E E, The Glandules of the Mamma.

F F, The Plexu's of Blood-Vessels and Lactiferous Ducts lying be∣tween each Glandulous Protuberance.

G G, Divers Sacculi Adiposi lying on the last mentioned Vessels and Ducts between the Mammary Glandules.

H H, The Adipose Membrane Pinn'd out.