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. 2.

The Texture of the Peritonaeum Examin'd with a Micro∣scope.

A A, The Nervous Fibres Running according to the Length of the Abdomen.

B B, Other Fibres carri'd in a Circular Manner from the Nervous Plexus thro' to the Breadth of the Abdomen.

C C, The Fibrillae which join the preceding Fibres toge∣ther, and are Complicated with them.

D D, The Nerves and their Branches which are very Re∣markable about the Ventricle.

E E, The Blood-Vessels broken off.

Concerning the Lymphe-Ducts of the Peritonaeum, &c. con∣sult Nuck's Adenographia Curiosa, Cap. IX.

The Peritonaeum has divers Perforations; Forewards, for the Umbilical Vessels in the Faetus; in its Upper-Part, for the Vena Cava, Gula, and Eighth Pair of Nerves, &c. In the Lower-Part by the Anus Bladder of Urine, and Vterus in Women: in this Lower-Part of the Peritonaeum, it's Two Processes at∣tending the Spermatick Vessels fall next under our Inspe∣ction.