A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...

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A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...
Author
Collins, Samuel, 1619-1670.
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In the Savoy [London] :: Printed by Thomas Newcomb,
MDCLXXV [1685]
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Anatomy, Comparative -- 17th century.
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"A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34010.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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Tab. XXXI.

Fig. 1. The Body of a Base opened.
  • a. THE Heart is of a triangular Figure.
  • b b. The Semi-circular Figure of the Liver.
  • c c. The points of the Liver, ending in the Right and Left Side.
  • d. The Bladder of Gall is endued with a conical Figure, beginning in an acute, and ending in an obtuse Cone.
  • e. The First and under Process, is the Gulet or Neck of the Stomach.
  • f. The Body of the Stomach.
  • g. The botom of the Stomach ending in a Cone.
  • h. The upper and Second Process of the Stomach.
  • i. The beginning of the Guts, where they are united to the end of the Second Process, maketh the First Circumvolution.
  • k k. The First Gut going in a straight course.
  • l l. The beginning of the Second Gut, where the Second Circumvolution is made.
  • m m. The Second Intestine.
  • n. The beginning of the Third Gut, where the Third Circumvolution is framed.
  • o o. The Third Gut which groweth greater toward its termination.
  • p. The end of the Intestines.
  • r. The beginning and largest part of the Spleen.
  • s. The Cone of the Spleen.
  • t. The Body of the Spleen affixed to the upper region of the Stomach.
  • u. The Right Ovary which is the shortest
  • w. The Left Ovary.
  • x x. The Swimmer, which is only a large one in this Fish.

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[illustration] engraving of a dissected fish
Tab. 31.

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