Elements of self-knowledge intended to lead youth into an early acquaintance with the nature of man, by an anatomical display of the human frame, a concise view of the mental faculties, and an inquiry into the genuine nature of the passions / Compiled, arranged, and partly written by R.C. Dallas.

  • Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Elements of self-knowledge intended to lead youth into an early acquaintance with the nature of man, by an anatomical display of the human frame, a concise view of the mental faculties, and an inquiry into the genuine nature of the passions / Compiled, arranged, and partly written by R.C. Dallas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - ANATOMICAL GLOSSARY, XXRL Senforium. Lat. the brain; where the nerves meet and caufe fenfation. Septum. Liat. a partition. Sefamoid. Greek. THTAHMY an betes grain, and e1do¢ likenefs. 'T his term 1s applied to the little bones at the firft joint of the great toes, and thumbs, from their refemblance to the eSHDS of Indian corn. Sigmoidoles. Greek. } and E1006 ; ; valves fo called from their refemblance to the old asia letter Sigma written as C. Sinus. Lat. a cavity, or depreffion. Skeleton. Greek. g4éAAw, to dry. When the bones of the body are preferved in their natural _ fituation, and deprived of the fleth, the affem- plage i is called, a fkeleton. Sphenoides. Greek. ony a wedge, sind e1dog likenefs, Wedge-fhaped bones. _ Sphincter. Greek. c@iylw to thut up. ‘Lhe name of mufcles whofe office is to clofe the ap- perture around which they are placed. Spine. Lat. fina, a thorn; fo called from the procefiors of the vertebre. | Stapes. Lat. a ftirrup; refembling a ftirrup. ‘Sternum. Lat. the breaft bone. Subclavian. Lat. from /ub under, and is a key, becauie the clavicles were fuppofed to refemble the key of the ancients, The arterics nerves, &c. under the collar bone. : t * Sublid-