Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.

CHAP. IX. Of the Thighes, Legs, and Feet.

THe thigh or Coxa is contained from the joynt of the haunch unto the knee; the leg reacheth from the knee to the ankle, and is called Tibia; & the foot from the ankle unto the end of the toes; the Thigh, Leg, and Foot are compound, made as the arme and hand, with skin, flesh, veines, arte∣ries, sinnews, brawns, tendons, and cords, wher∣of in order.

Of the skin and flesh it's spoken of before; and as of veins and arteries, in their descending down∣wards, at the last spondels they be divided into 2 parts, whereof the one part goeth into the right thigh, and the other into the left, and when they come to the thigh, they be divided into two parts, or branches; one of them spreadeth into the inner side of the leg, and the other into the outer side, and so branching descend down to the Leg, Ankles, and Feet, and be brought into foure veines, which be commonly used in bloud letting, as hereafter followeth; one of them is under the under Ankle towards the heele, called Soffeua; another under the under Ankle, and is called Sia∣rica, and another under the ham, called Poplitica; the fourth betweene the little Toe and the next, called Renalis. The sinnewes spring of the last spondel, and of Os sacrum, and passeth through

the hole of the bone of the hip, and descendeth to the brawnes, and moveth the knee and the ham, and these descend downe to the Ankle, and move the foote, and the brawnes of the foote moove the toes, as is declared in the bones of the hand; the thigh bone, or Coxa, is without a fellow, and full of marrow, and round at either end; the roundnesse at upper end is called Verte∣brum, or whirlbone, and boweth inwards, and is received into the box or hole of the haunch bone, and at the knee he hath two rounds, which he re∣ceiveth into the Concavities of the bones of the leg, at the knee, called the great fossels.

There is also at the knee a round bone, called the knee pan; then followeth the leg, wherein is two bones called focile major and focile minor, the bigger of them passeth before, and is called the shin bone, and passeth downe making the inward ankle; the lesse passeth from the knee backwards, and descendeth downe to the outer ank'e, and there formeth that ankle.

The bones of the foot are six and twenty; first next the ankle bone is one called Orabalistus; next under that towards the heele, is one called Calca∣ny: and betweene them is another bone, called Os neculare; in the second ward there bee foure bones called Raccti, as bee in the hands: In the third and fourth wards be fourteene, called Digi∣tori, and five called Pectens, at the extremity of the

Toes, next to the nailes: And thus be there in the foot 26 bones, with the leg from the ankle to the knee; 2 in the knee, and one round and flat bone, and in the thigh one; in the whole, thigh, leg, and foot, thirty bones: Thus are we marvelously and curiously wrought in the nethermost parts of the earth.