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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Fig. 1.

THE Superior Convex Surface of the Liver here Printed on the Reverse.

AA, The Superior Gibbous Part of the Liver, where divers Lympheducts may be seen.

B B, The Ligamentum Suspensorium Hepatis, fasten'd to the Diaphragma, its Fore-Part being cut from the Ensiformal Car∣tilage.

C C, Part of the Diaphragma; in which its Fleshy and Ten∣dinous Parts appear together with its Blood-Vessels.

D, The Ligamentum Umbilicale pinn'd out.

E E, That Part of the Liver which is Extended towards the Left Side, and rests on the Stomach, and is sometimes (as in this Subject) divided into Lobes.

F, Seems to be Part of the Diaphragma: Bidloo makes it to be a Ligament that adheres to the Ensiformal Cartilage, which I can by no Means conceive.

G, A Portion of the External Membrane of the Liver, continued from the Peritonaeum, rais'd.

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