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.

Fig. 32.

The Lower Jaw with some of the Muscles of the Under Lip remaining to it.

A, The External Left Side of the Bone made bare.

B, The Processus Condyliformis.

C, The Processus Corone.

D, An Acute Process, on the Internal Part of the Lower Jaw beyond the Dentes Mollares, under which the Trunks of Nerves and Blood-Vessels pass into the Meditullium of the Bone, and give Branches to each Tooth.

d, Some Branches of the same Nerves and Blood-Vessels Marching out of the Bone again to the Muscles, Glands, and Membranes of the Lower Lip.

E, The Inside of the Lower Lip Co••er'd with its Proper Membrane.

F F, The Inner Face of the Musculus Depressor Labii Infe∣rioris Proprius. Vid. Tab. 12. Fig. 5. H.

G G, Some of the Small Salival Glandules which Appear immediately under the Membrane E.

H H, These Muscles I could never find Describ'd by any Author, tho' they are constant in Nature, or at least in all those Bodies I have ever look'd for them. I call them Eleva∣tores Labii Inferioris Proprii from their Office. They Spring Fleshy from the Fore-part of the Lower Jaw, immediately under the Gengivae of the Dentes Incisores, and Descend to their Insertions in the Skin, which Composes the Chin: When they Act, they Draw up the Skin on the Chin, and make it Appear Variously Indented,