Myographiae comparatae specimen, or, A comparative description of all the muscles in a man, and in a quadruped / By James Douglas.

  • Douglas, James, 1675-1742.
Date:
1775
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Credit: Myographiae comparatae specimen, or, A comparative description of all the muscles in a man, and in a quadruped / By James Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bove twelve fubjeds, both foetufes and adults | committing to paper what I obferved. I read often, and carefully perufed all the authors that have wrote upon the mufcles, from the immortal Galen down to this time; and after comparing all the defcriptions one with ano¬ ther, I fmgled out fuch as I found conform¬ able to the life, that being the flandard I always go by; and according as that direded me, I have here redified what I humbly conceived to be their miflakes, (but without mentioning them as theirs) and fupplied their defects as far as my obfervation went* If any one has a mind to cenfure thefe de¬ fcriptions as falfe, I only beg leave to acquaint him beforehand, that I will always appeal to the ocular infpedion of fubjeds ; and if that gives it againfl me, I fhall willingly retrad and acknowledge my error. Whatever is offered againfl them, that is not accompanied with that, I fhall pay but little regard to it. And to juflify, in fome meafure, the conformity of thefe defcriptions to exad obfervation and matter of fad, I flill keep by me the half of one of my fubjeds, artfully prepared, which will afiord me means of demonflration when a frefh fubjed is not at hand. And