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 ...

Tab. IX.

Fig. 1. In which is represented the Concave part of the excarnated Liver of Man.

• A. THE part of the Liver next the Back.
• B. The right side of the Liver.
• C. The fore-part of it.
• D. The Left Side.
• E. The Vena Cava, where it passeth through the Midriffe.
• E. 1. E. 2. E. 3. The three first Branches of the Cava, distributed through the whole Liver.
• F. The Vena Porta turned back and upward.
• F. 1. F. 2. F. 3. F. 4. Four branches of the Porta dispersed into the lower fouth part of the Liver.
• G. The Bladder of Gall.
• H H. The umbilical Vein, degenerated into a Ligament.
• I. The common Duct leading into the Intestines.
• K. The venous Channel, serving instead of a Ligament.
• L. The Trunk of the Cava.
• a. The Membrane investing the Liver.
• b. Part of the Midriffe.
• c. The Porus Bilarius.
• d. The Meatus Cysticus.
• e. The concourse of these excretory Vessels.
• f. The Hepatick Artery.
• g. o. The Hepatick Nerves.
• p p p p. The common Capsula opened.
• q q. The Lymphaeducts.
• m m m. The lesser branches of the Porta.
• n n. The small Branches of the Cava.

Fig. 2. Of a Man's Spleen opened.

• a a a a. The substance of the Spleen.
• b b. The Tunicle being Dissected, and Inverted, that the progress of the Blood-vessels and nervous Plexes may be the better discovered.
• c. A part of the Vena Porta cut off.
• d. The Splenick Branch.
• e. The Splenick Branch being opened, that the Valve may be discerned.
• f f f f. The Splenick Trunk of the Artery, passing through the whole sub∣stance of the Spleen.
• g g g g. The Branches of the Splenick Artery arising of the great Trunk.
• h h h h. Nervous Fibrils wonderfully complicated, between which the Ar∣teries do make their progress, to which the Parenchyma of the Spleen is affixed.
• i. The Valve of the Splenick Branch looking outward toward the Porta.
• k. Many holes are very conspicuous in the termination of the Splenick Branch
• l. Nerves passing by the sides of the Splenick Artery.

[illustration] engraving of a human liver and spleen, flayed open

Tab: 9.