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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    S human body, after the diffe&ion of one, or two at mod. Galen, the great head of the anatomical fchool, both pra&ifed himfelf, and recom¬ mended to his fcholars, the frequent diflfe&ion of monkeys and apes, as highly conducive to a more perfect knowledge of the admirable ftructure of the organs of the human body. I do not affirm, as fome would have it, that he never diffe&ed any thing elfe: For not to mention the many other reafons that might be offered to the contrary, the very defcrip- tions he gives of feveral mufcles fuit only to the human body, and differ from all the qua¬ drupeds ; but becaufe that ever renowned au¬ thor has left us on record an account of the mufcles in an ape, as well as in a man, I de¬ fire the reader to remark, that the defcriptions of the mufcles in his Adminiftrattones Anatomi¬ es, and in his book, De Dijfettione Mufado- rum, are chiefly taken from apes: But the account we have of them in his admirable book, De Ufu Partium, are all taken from men. It is pity the great Vefalius did not confider this. The method I have here obferved, is the lame with that made ufe of at Surgeons-hall in