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. 3.

A, Part of the Longitudinal Sinus opened.

B B, &c. The Veins of the Brain, before they enter the Sinus.

C C, Their Orifices opening into the Sinus va∣riously; some of them being parallel to their Trunks; other Veins first pass in the Duplicature of the Sinus forwards, and others backwards; by which means the Progressive Motion of the Blood is not only assisted in some Positions of the Head, and its too rapid Motion prevent∣ed in others; but a due Mixture and Reunion of its Parts are made, after undergoing so elabo∣rate a Strainer, as that of the whole Substance of the Brain, especially in its Cortical or Glandu∣lous Part.