The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.

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Title: The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.
Author: Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, J. Leigh, and S. Martyn ...,; MDCLXXXI [1681]
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The Twelfth Table

Shews the Spinal Marrow whole taken out of its bony Den, and half taken from the Membrane cloathing it, being dissected, that the beginnings and productions of all the Vertebral Nerves might be seen together.

A.A. The top of the Spinal Marrow, where it is cut off from its cleaving to the oblong Marrow.
B. The Spinal Artery seen to descend through the whole Marrow, which however is made up of Arteries, brought into it from between the several joyntings of the Ver∣tebrae.
C.C. The Spinal Nerve coming from the fifth or sixth Vertebra of the Neck to the be∣ginning of the wandring pair.
D.D. Portions of the Membrane cloathing the Marrow dissected and rolled off.
E.E.E. The Spinal Nerves sent out of the upper margine of the Marrow by hands, with which the like bundles also being carried from the lower margine, meet and joyn together all into one trunk within the junctures of the Vertebrae: then being se∣parated again without them, they are carried into their respective Provinces.
F. f. Nerves brought forth within the region of the Neck.
G.g. Nerves destinated for the Shoulder and Arm, where both the Marrow is larger, and the bundles of the nerves are greater.
H.h. Nerves going out about the Back and Loyns: where both the body of the Marrow is again smaller, and the little bundles of the nerves are a little slenderer.
I. i. Nerves destinated for the thighs, where also the medullar body and the little bundles of the nerves are again larger.
K. Nerves going out of the Os Sacrum.