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. 4.

The Kidney Divided thro' its whole Length, from its Back to the Pelvis.

A A, The Urinary Tubes as they Appear in divers Clas∣ses, in their Way towards the Papillae in the Pelvis.

B C, The Glands and Urinary Tubes Interspers'd with the Blood-Vessels of the Kidney.

D, The Pelvis or Infundibulum Open'd, so that the going out of the Vreter may be seen.

d, The Vreter.

E E, The Carunculae Papillares compos'd of the Endings of the Urinary Tubes, which open into the Branchings of the Pelvis, into which the Urine is discharg'd, in Order to its being transmitted to the Bladder of Urine by the V∣reter.

e e, The Fat within the Kidney lying on the Pelvis.