The Muscles and Nerues scituated in the cauitie of the lower Belly. CHAP. XVIII.
BEside the Muscles of the Abdomen mentioned and but mentioned in the ninth Chapter of the second Booke, and the muscles of the Fundament named in the former Chapter, there are also other muscles appearing in the lower belly when the parts aboue named are remoued. And those are two paires lying vpon the spondels or rack-bones. The first is the sixt muscle moouing the thigh or the first of his benders, they are called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latine Lumbales. The second is the seauenth mouing the thigh or the se∣cond * 1.1 of his benders, and it is called Iliacus internus the inward flanke Muscle, of which wee shall heare more in the history of the muscles of the thigh.
At the sides of the loynes on either hand is a portion of the broade muscle called Latis∣simus, which draweth the arme backeward and downeward, vnder which lyeth the square * 1.2 muscle called Quadratus, which is the first muscle of the back. But in the very denne or ca∣uity it selfe is the muscle of the thigh, according to Vesalius, called obturator internus, and it