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.

REPRESENTS the Fore-part of the Fundus Uteri not long after Impregnation, together with the Parts Annext.

A, The Fundus Vte∣ri.

B, The Left Falloppian Tube Distended, and its Foliated Expansions Embracing the Ovarium; which Action, accord∣ing to De Graaf do's not Appear in Rabbets till Twenty-four Hours after the Coitus.

C C, The Ovaria with their Protuberant Ova in their Folliculi.

D D, The Blood-Vessels more Extended with Blood than before Impregnation.

E, The Right Falloppian Tube with its Fim∣briae Expanded.

F F, Portions of the Blood-Vessels of the Ova∣ria call'd Praeparantia and Spermatica.

G G, A Portion of the Peritonaeum which makes the External Membrane of the Vterus, and call'd Ligamentum Latum Vteri.

H H, The Uterine Round Ligaments lying under the Peritonaeum.

I, The Cervix Vteri Divested of its Common Membrane the Peritonaeum, to shew its Blood-Vessels.

K K, The Vagina Vteri Inverted, where its Internal Rugae are well Exprest.

L, The Internal Mouth of the Vterus, call'd Os Tincae, somewhat Dilated.

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