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. 6.

The Right Auricle, and Part of the Basis of the Heart.

A A, The Right Auricle expanded.

B B B, The Three Tricuspid Valves; Two of which, are extended by Pinning out their Tendons, deriv'd from the Columnae Carneae: See Fig. 7. g g, Fig. 10. A, Inferior. The Office of the Auricles is to re∣ceive Part of the Refluent Blood whilst the Heart is in Systole, and to discharge that Blood again into the Ventricles of the Heart when it is in Diastole, so that the Auricles of the Heart seem as Diverticula to the Blood in its passing into its Ventricles; else a Repercussion of the Blood in the Veins would necessarily happen in the Systole of the Heart; which would prevent the regular Influx of the Blood to the Ventricles.