The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. : With an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended. To which is added, The anatomy and description of a rattlesnake : Also of the musk-hog. With a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm. And two letters concerning a monstrous birth, and preternatural conception : With reflections thereon. The second edition. / Being the works of Edward Tyson, M.D. F.R.S. Adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. Vander Gucht.

  • Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
Date:
1751
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Credit: The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. : With an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended. To which is added, The anatomy and description of a rattlesnake : Also of the musk-hog. With a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm. And two letters concerning a monstrous birth, and preternatural conception : With reflections thereon. The second edition. / Being the works of Edward Tyson, M.D. F.R.S. Adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. Vander Gucht. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than in Adult Perfons $ but moft remarkably they are fo, in a Bear, the Porpois and an Oftrich $ where there are abundance of diftinfr fmall Kid¬ neys amafied together to make up each. The P ar ip an s in the Kidneys of their Monkeys obferve, that they were round and flat 5 their fltuation was snore unequal, than in a Man 5 the right being much lower thasi the left, viz. half it’s bignefs. Drelincourt in the Female Ape remarks, Renes globofi, dexter intra Hypochondrium incumbit Ccft£ II. & 12. Sinifler locum habet intra Coflam ultimam. Altitndo Rents dimidice uncice. Renalium venarum dextra longe elatior finifirh. Rene aperto Carnis difcrimen ut in homine, exterior qnidem nigricans lineis quatu- or craffa, interior albicans lineis duabus. The Pelvis of the Kidney in our Pygmie was as 'tis ufually in a Man$ and the Ureters had nothing remarkably different in their Stru&ure, from the common make. They were about the bignels of a Wheat ftraw 5 and were inferted into the neck of the Bladder, as reprefented in our figure 5 rather fomewhat nearer the neck, than in an Humane Bladder. The Parifians and Blafius have no remarks upon the Ureters. Drelin¬ court in the Male Ape faith, Ureteres fupra Pfoas Mufculo & Iliaco, atque fubius vafis Spermatids, quibus decuffailm fubflrati funt etiamquibus vafcula admittunt, fife refledunt in Hypogajiricam, decuffantes ramos Iliacos & E- jaculatorios. And in the Female, Ureteris expanfiones arcuatlm reflex £ ut in homine. Vafa habent fuperne a Renalibus, inferne a Mufculis. The Bladder of Urine in our Pygmie was of an Oblong figure, not fo globous as commonly in Man, for being moderately blown up it mea- fared four Inches in length 5 and two Inches and half in breadth. In o- ther Circumftances ’twas agreeable enough with an Humane Bladder, The Parifians tell us, that in the Female Monkey, the Neck, of the « Bladder had it's hole othervoife than in Women, being very far in the Neck. °f the Matrix, viz. towards the middle, at the place where it's roughnefs began, which were feen only towards the Extremity of the Du&us, near the internal Orifice. Blflius faith nothing of it in his Ape $ and all that Drelincourt tells us is, Vefica Perilonceo fuflenfa ut in aliis Brutis» Before we proceed to the Parts of Generation (which remain befides to be here defcribed) we (hall a little take notice of thofe large Canales of the Blood, the Arteria Aorta and the Vena Cava, and the Rivulets they e» mit or do receive $ all which I find in our Pygmie to be juft the fame, as they are in a Man. For from the Aorta arifes here, the Arteria Caliaca 5 the Arteria Mefenterica fuperior 5 then theEmulgent Arteries 5 below them, tile Spermatick. Arteries 5 then the Arteria Mefenterica inferior then the Trunk.