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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"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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A Dissection of the Body of Man. Visio Secunda.

The first Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Figure A. represents,
  • a The forehead vein.
  • b The vein of the temples.
  • A The head vein, or uttermost of the Cubit.
  • c d The Basilick, or liver vein.
  • * The middle vein.
  • Observe that this vein c, is oftentimes (but unrightly) opened for the middle vein: also ordaining to open the lower branch Salvatella, from the vein d here, and at the little finger.
  • e The Salvatella, or milt vein.
  • f The head vein in the hand.
  • * The utter vein, called Tibialis.
  • g The inner leg vein. Also †.
  • h The Sciatick veins.
  • i The vein of the ankle, called Saphena. Also A.
  • k The vein upon the great toe commonly called the head vein.
  • l The vein of the little finger.
  • The valves growing to the sides of the veins, make those knots here to be observed.
  • m p q The mans member, or Priapus.
  • r. The hair of the privities.
  • n The mans yard.
  • o The prepuce or upper skin of the yard.
  • p The nut of the yard.
  • q q The testicles in their purse.
Figure B.
  • a B b c d The rim of the belly.
  • a a a The upper part of the membrane of the rim dis∣sected.
  • b b The white line.
  • B The navil.
  • c c The productions of the rim of the belly.
  • d d Veins and arteries from the mammaries.
  • 〈…〉〈…〉 and arteries from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉
  • 〈…〉〈…〉ns sprinkled 〈…〉〈…〉 he rim.
Figure C.
  • C The midriff.
Figure D.
  • D The sorepart of the stomack.
  • a The gut Diodenam.
  • b The common passage of the gall.
  • See more in the third Vision and the tenth Table.
Figure E.
  • E The liver.
  • a a a a a a The body of the liver.
  • b b The bladder of gall.
  • † A portion of the umbilick vein.
Figure F.
  • F The navil.
  • f f f The surface of the midriff, compassed with the Pl••••••a.
  • † The umbilick or vein of the navil.
  • a a The umbilick arteries.
  • b A ligament of the bladder, called Urachus.
  • c The bladder of urin.
  • The bladder of seed, or glan∣dulous body which retains the laboured seed.
Figure G.
  • G The upper membrane of the kell.
  • a a a a Vessels covered with fat.
Figure H.
  • H The guts.
  • a The seat, here the muscles of the fundament.
  • b The gut Ileu, or small gut.
  • c The empty gut, or Jejnam.
  • d The blind gut, or Caeum.
  • e H e The collick gut, or Colon.
  • f The right gut, or elum.
  • See more in the third Vision. Table five, and Table thir∣teen.
Figure I.
  • I The trunck of the gate-vein.
  • a The splenick branch.
  • b The mesenterick branch.
  • c c The milt.
  • d d The sweet-bread, or Pan∣creas.
  • e e The mesentery with his veins freed from the guts, and what else is joyned to him in the body.
Figure K.
  • K The cavity of the lower belly.
  • a The descending trunck of the hollow vein.
  • b The descending trunck of the great artery.
  • c The fatty veins out of the trunck.
  • d The kidny vein and artery.
  • e The fatty vein out of the kid∣ny vein.
  • f The keens or kidnies.
  • g The ureters.
  • h The loyn veins and arteries.
  • i The upper muscle vein and artery.
  • k The division of that vein and artery, into the iliac bran∣ches.
  • l The holy veins and arteries.
  • m A division of the iliac branch into an outward, and an inward.
  • n The right Spermatic veins, out of the trunck of the hollow vein.
  • o The left Spermatic veins, out of the Emulgent.
  • p p The Spermatic arteries.
  • q s The contiguity of the Sper∣matic veins, and arteries, so sliding by the productions of the rim into the purse of the testicles.
  • r The muscles of the testicles, called Cremasteres.
  • s The Spiry bodden vessel, cal∣led Varicosum, made of the wonderful implication of the veins and arteries.
  • t t The testicles.
  • u The Parostatae, or Epididymis, a crumpled vessel.
  • x A leading vessel of the seed.
  • y The reflexion of this vessel.
  • z The Mans yard.
  • See more in the Table of the second Vision; these parts exempted from the body.
Figure L.
  • L The purse of the heart, called Pericardium.
  • a The mediastinum torn from the breast bone, and lying upon the purse of the heart.
  • b The ascending hollow vein.
  • The ascending great artery.
  • d The descending great artery.
  • e The division of the ascending truncks at the Jugulum.
  • f The original of the vein Ay∣gos, out of the hollow vein.
  • g The left subclavian branch.
  • h The right subclavian branch: here it beginneth to be call'd the Axillary, or vein of the arm-holes
  • i i The jugular with the sleepy arteries.
  • k The upper Axillary branch.
  • l The lower Axillary branch.
  • m The arterial vein and his be∣ginning out of the heart.
  • n The venal artery coming from the heart.
  • o o o The spreading of these through the lungs.
  • p. The descending trunck of the great artery.
  • q The implantation and en∣trance of the hollow vein in∣to the heart.
  • r The descending branch of the hollow vein.
Figure M.
  • M The rough artery. Or wea∣zon pipe.
  • a b b c g h i The head of the rough artery, or top of the throttle.
  • a g The after-tongue, at g, his cleft.
  • b b The shield gristle.
  • d M l k The pipe of the rough artery.
  • c c The glandules, or almonds.
  • d l l The semi-circular gri∣stle, between which the membranous ligaments.
  • e e The division of the rough artery, and its branches unto the loes of the lungs.
  • f f Circles of the rough ar∣teries through the lungs.
  • g The back side of the ater-tongue shutteth the cleft.
  • g h i The hinder part of the throttle.
  • h h The cavity of the shield gristle.
  • i The ring gristle.
  • k k A membranous ligament, filling the circle of the crop.
  • l l The muscles of the crop.
  • x x m The upper right lobe of the lungs.
  • y † n The lower left lobe of the lungs.
  • z z The space between the globe, where they seem to be disjoyned.
Figure N.
  • N The great artery going out of the heart aloft, cut
  • a The vein Azygos cut off.
  • b The hollow vein aloft cut off, which passing through the midriff, is marked in the lower belly with e, and about the liver (from which it is here fed with some root torn out marked with i e , which letters betoken as followeth.
  • e e The roots of the hollow vein torn out, which otherwise grow in the Parenchyma of the liver.
  • f The same hollow vein separa∣ted from the liver, whose one trunck climbeth, the other descendeth.
  • c c A branch of the Azygos in the left side.
  • d d d Branches of the Azygos, resected, which are led to the rib.
Figuri O.
  • O The rack-bones.
  • a a a a a a The ribs.
  • b b The trench of the heart, or pit, or spoon.
  • c c c c c c The intercostal mus∣cles.
  • d The upper part of the breast bone, to which the collar bones are brought and fast∣ned, or articulated.
  • e e The glandules placed at the hollow of the neck higher.
  • f f The surface of the midriff, compassed with the Pleura.
  • g g A portion of the Mediasti∣num torn away, by which you may see the cavity of the breast within.
  • See further in the first Vision, Table 12.
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.
The third Table, or Facio; in the the second Vision. Explicateth the wonderful net.
  • a b c d e The wonderful net.
  • a The flegmatick glandule.
  • b c The arteries going under the the brain, making the wonderful net.
  • c c Other branches, unto which propagations of the net are committed.
The fourth Table, or Facio, in the second Vision. Of the head veins and arteries.
  • a The internal Jugular.
  • b The sleepy artery arising with the Jugular.
  • a h The first vein in the first bosome, from which bran∣ches to the neighbouring parts.
  • b h The first artery in the first bosome.
  • c The forward second vein in the sinus.
  • c The backward third vein in the sinus.
  • d d A distribution of the third vein and artery.
  • e A branch of the first vein and artery, (into the muscles of the neck) cut off.
  • f The second artery in the si∣nus, or bosome.
  • g The hird artery, here entring the scull, and is divided.
  • h The first sinus of the hard membrane.
  • i The second sinus of the hard membrane.
  • k The 4th sinus, (being made of the concourse of the other three) hidden.
  • lll The third sinus of the hard membrane.
  • m m Branches scattered to the left part of the membrane, here cut off.
  • n n Branches sprinckled to the right part of the membrane.
  • o o o The fourth sinus led along by the sythe.
  • p p Circles from this leading, going upwards.
  • q r The upper branch of the fourth sinus, the lower also about k, which being parted in two, sendeth the one sprout fore out to the thumb, the other after out, to the after-brain.
  • s A notable vessel, into which the fourth sinus endeth.
  • t The parting of this vessel in two.
  • u Branches of the d artery, which on the left side goe to the soft membrane, and on the right side, to the right ventricle of the brain.
  • x The wonderful net,
  • y A branch of the 3d artery to the buttocks of the brain.
  • z A branch to the eys.
The fifth Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Sheweth the Liver.
  • A The hollow part of the liver.
  • a a The bladder of the gall opened.
  • b Three valves of the neck of the bladder.
  • c The passage of gall opened.
  • dd The concurrence of the neck of the bladder, with the passage of gall, making one chanale.
  • eee Small branches, leading the purer gall into the bladder.
  • f The umbilick vein.
  • g The trunck of the gate-vein asunder.
  • h h Part of the hollow vein.
  • kkk The inner substance of the liver, being out in the mid∣dle, where likewise are the holes of the roots of the hollow and gate-vein cut open.
  • l The flat side of the liver.
  • m m A portion of the hollow vein.
  • n n The midriff veins.
  • o A ligament by which the liver is fastned unto the midriff.
The sixth Table, or Facio; in the second Vision.
  • a The bladder of gall like as it is scituated in the hollow part of the liver.
  • b A cavity, unto which the valves do cleave.
  • c The neck of the bladder of gall.
  • c The passage of gall.
  • e The common way of the pas∣sage of gall, and the neck of the bladder.
  • f The gate of the stomack, Or Pylorus.
  • g The gut Duodenum.
  • h The same opened that the insertion of the common passage of gall might ap∣pear.
  • i The artery through the li∣ver and bladder.
  • k A nerve for the liver and bladder.
  • ll The Cystique twins.
  • m m Branches or ways of the gall.
The seventh Table, or Facio; in the second Vision.
  • a The mammary veins and arteries descending.
  • b The Epigastick veins and arteries ascending.
  • c c The concurrence of the extremities of these vessels
The eighth Table, or Facio; in the second Vision.
  • a The Balon lifted up.
  • b The flegmatick glandule.
  • c c c c Four passages to the letting out o flegme.
The ninth Ta••••e, or Fa io; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the second Vision.
  • a b d f g l o p q t Are expressed in the same man∣ner, as aforesaid, in the first Table and Figure K.
  • e The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of urine.
  • The see bladders opned.
  • h The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the u••••∣ters.
  • i The ve••••es of the yard.
  • m The common passage to the seed and urine ope∣ned.
The tenth Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Exhibiteth the Womb, with its neck turned upwards.
  • a The whole womb.
  • b b The neck of the womb folded in it self, and drawn upwards.
  • c A part of the bottom womb, like unto the nut of the yard, sweling into the up∣per part of the neck of the womb, in the midst where∣of the orifice appeareth.
  • d The neck of the womb.
The eleventh Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Setteth out the Ramification of the hollow and ga••••-vein through the liver.
  • a b c The hollow vein.
  • a b The ascending trunck.
  • b c The descending trunck.
  • d d d d Roots of the hollow vein, through the substance of the liver.
  • e e e e Roots of the gate-vein, through the hollow part of the liver.
  • f f f An inocculation of the roots of both the veins.
  • g The trunck of the gate-vein cut asunder, which in the third Vision, and the fourth Table, is marked with a, and is there far∣ther described.
The twelfth Table, or Faio; in the second Vision. Exhibiteth the bladder with its Ligaments.
  • a The navil.
  • b The backside of the blad∣der of urin.
  • c The concurrence of the leading vessels.
  • d The ureters, or pipes of the urin.
  • e The Glandule prostatae.
  • f The two bodies of the yard.
  • g The Sphincter muscle of the bladder.
The thirteenth Table, or Fa•••••• in the second Vision. Sheweth the left vent of the heart opened above 〈◊〉〈◊〉 great artery.
  • a The great artery ut asun¦der, beneath the which t•••• arterial vein, and by t•••• which the crown arteri
  • The rifice of the great ar∣tery, or its original 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the heart.
  • c c Three valves in the ar∣tery, called Sigmoides.
  • d The partition of the heart.
  • e Two ••••oodgates of the ven•••• arteries.
  • g The left ear turned in∣wards
  • h f The cavity of the left ventricle.
  • i The fibres of the valves here resected.
  • kk The external substance 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the heart, shuting up the left ventricle.
The fo••••teenth Table, or Faio, in the second Vision. S••••w•••• the right ventricle of the heart, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the 〈…〉〈…〉
  • a Portion of the great ar∣tery.
  • b Portion of the holow vein.
  • c The valves of the hollow vein.
  • d. The f••••res or filaments.
  • f g e The orifice of the ar∣terial vein opened.
  • f g Smal holes of the br n∣ches into the arterial vein.
  • e e e The three valves, called Sigoide.
  • h h The partition of the heart.
The fifteenth Table, or Facio; in the second Vision. Sheweth the heart freed from its purse, and dissected in the middle.
  • a The ascending trunck of the great artery.
  • b The left axillary artery.
  • c The ascending trunck of the great artery, above which lies the hollow vein.
  • d The right ear.
  • e f The arterial vein opened.
  • e A hole gaping into the hollow vein, with its valve: in Infants it is open, but in Men grown to years 'tis grown together.
  • g g The outside of the heart.
  • h i k Peeces of the heart.
  • hh The insides of the heart.
  • i i k k The cavity of the ven∣tricles of the heart.
FINIS.
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