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The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.

  • Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722.
Date:
1688
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Credit: The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The bod y confidered in tivo re- Spects. 1. Gene- rally, L 6 of ae ae P Arvtt— CLAY LV» A Part ee ihe } achined. Of the Abdomen. Book I. of is the principal and ultimate end of this art. An human body may be confidered, either ge- nerally, with refpect to the wholes or particularly, with refpect to each part of which it confifts, In its general confideration, there are to be ta= Ken notice .of, its external form. or fhape, its bulk, and its colour, But thefe Accidents being obvious to the eye of every man, as well as to the Anatomilts, are no proper fubjeéts for our dif courte. The particular confideration of it obferves and demonftrates the Figure, connexion, and. compo- fition or ftrudkure of each fevéral Party andthe great diverfity of their Actions and Ufes, ' Now a Part may be thus defined, viz. It ws @ bodily or [clid (ubftance , cohering with, making up, and partaking of, the life of the whole, and ferving for [ome function or ufe. | Inthisdefinition, are implied thefe five things. 1. A part muft be /c/id, whereby the fpirits and humours are excluded. not only contiguous; but-continuous to it: and from hence. allo: the fpirits and humours are ex- “44 as they pafs along, being contaiped inthem, but not united to them. 3. It (with others) muftferve to cémpleaf or make up the whole, Whence. the child in the womb is not to be reckoned a part of a pregnant Navel-itrings, (the placenta intervening). bécaufe after delivery fhe remains a perfect woman ,: as i fhe was alfo before conception, whereby the nails and hairs are exempted,