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.

This Figure is Copied from Bourdon's Third Table, Fig. 1.

A A A, The Mesentery in which its Vessels and Glands are here only Exprest.

B B, The Intestines.

C D, The Glandules of the Mesentery, thro' which the Chyle and Lympha pass together from the Intestines to the Receptaculum Chyli. C D, Those Glands which receive the Contents of the Vasa Lactea Primi Generis; F, That plac'd near the Receptaculum Chyli which receive the Contents of the Venae Lacteae Secundi Generis. A A, Inferior, Denote the Venae Lacteae Primi Generis. A, Supe∣rior and E, Represents the Venae Lacteae Secundi Generis. E, Superior, Part of a Lympheduct Arising from the Spleen.

G, Part of the Receptaculum Chyli, or the Beginning of the Ductus Thoracicus.

H, The Arteria Mesenterica.

I, The Vena Mesenterica.

A further Description of the Receptaculum Chyli and Ductus Thoracicus, is Inserted in the Appen∣dix, Fig. 11, 12.