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 ...
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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 14, 2025.

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Tab. XXXIV. The Body of a Bream opened.

  • a. THe Base of the Heart.
  • b. The Cone of the Heart.
  • c c. The greater and broader part of the Liver.
  • d. The smaller part running in length for some inches.
  • e e. The Bladder of Gall.
  • f. The entrance of the Stomach.
  • g. The Arch of the Stomach.
  • h h. The Body of the Stomach, which is very long.
  • i. The termination of the Stomach.
  • k. The origen of the Intestines, where the Stomach and Guts being con∣joyned, make the first Circumvolution.
  • l l. The first and greater Gut.
  • m. The second Circumvolution where the second Gut beginneth.
  • n n n. The second Gut which is much less then the former, and taketh its progress between the Stomach and first Intestine.
  • o. The termination of the Guts.
  • p p. The first and great row.
  • q. The second row.
  • r. The third row.
  • s. The fourth row.
  • t. The upper and least Vesicle of Air beginning in a point, and ending more large dimensions.
  • u u. The lowest and longest Vesicle of Air beginneth large and endeth in a Cone.

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[illustration] engraving of a dissected fish
Tab: 34.

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