A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman: wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies both inward and outward are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyryrgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton Chyrurgeon.

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A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman: wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies both inward and outward are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyryrgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton Chyrurgeon.
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Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632.
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London :: printed by Joseph Moxon, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Atlas on Ludgate-hill,
MDCLXXV. [1675]
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Human anatomy
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"A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman: wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies both inward and outward are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyryrgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton Chyrurgeon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93594.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.

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The second Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Figure A represents,
  • a d g The outward surface of the skul, and the upper.
  • A The bone of the forehead.
  • a a The temple bones with the skaly appendices.
  • b The nowle bone.
  • c c The coronal future.
  • d The sagittal future.
  • e e The landal future.
  • f f The bones of the sinciput.
  • g g The yoak bone.
Figure B.
  • a a s BB The upper part of the brain bare from the skull, and covered with the Dura mater:
  • a The first sinus of the brain, or Rillet.
  • b The second sinus of the brain.
  • c The third sinus; in the con∣course of these three is the fourth, which is hidden within.
  • d The place of the after-brain.
  • e e Certain small veins and ar∣teries, running through the Dura mater, or hard mem∣brane.
  • f A line of the hard membrane made by the coronal future.
  • g h The skull, from which the upper part is taken away, by the help of a saw.
  • i Vessels through the soft mem∣brane.
  • k k The upper part of the brain, (still covered with the soft membrane) with its anfra∣ctuousness.
  • ll The brain turned to the sides.
  • m The callous body.
  • n The process of the Dura ma∣ter, ressembling a sythe.
  • l m m The after-brain.
Figure C.
  • C C The inward marrow, the substance of the brain, from which the upper part, so well on the right as on the left side is taken away.
  • a a The bark of the brain inve∣sting its marrow
  • b The callous body.
  • c c The arch, in the middle of which a partition distin∣guishing the former ventri∣cles of the brain.
  • d d f f The former ventricles of the brain.
  • d d The upper part of the for∣mer ventricles of the brain.
  • e A vessel from the 4th rillet, lying under the Arch, which goet into the 3d ventricle.
  • ff The lower part of the former ventricles of the brain.
  • g g Arteries from the sleepy ar∣teries making the thumb, or Pl•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ides.
  • h h Small veins through the ven∣tricles of the brain.
  • i Yet a part of the former right ventricle.
  • k The third ventricle of the brain, of which the former passage goeth to the bason, the hindermost into the fourth ventricle.
  • l l The sides at the third ventri∣cle of the brain.
  • m m The testicles of the brain.
  • n The pinal glandule, or the yard of the brain.
  • oo The buttocks of the brain.
  • p The fourth ventricle of the brain.
  • q q The spinal marrow.
  • rr Portions of the marrow from which the after-brain is cut off.
Figure D.
  • D a c f h The inner and lower surface of the skull.
  • D The greatest hole of the nowle-bone, by which the spinal marrow descendeth.
  • a a The two hindermost rillets of the skull.
  • bb Divers futures in the base of the skull.
  • c c Divers holes in the base of the skull, for the ascent and descent of the vessels.
  • e The cavity in the wedge-bone, in which the flegmatick glandule resteth.
  • ff The wedge-bone.
  • g h h The spungy bone, or five.
  • g The partition of the spungy bone.
  • h h Small holes and cavities in the spungy bone.
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