Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.

  • Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700
Date:
1698
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Credit: Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X 9 To flft Worthy Friend, Mr.TOHN BROWNE, Sworn Chyrurgeon to His Majefty. SIR, Have at lajl Anfwerd your T)efires in this Impreffeon, tho' there was m need of it, aft,er our learned Trefident and Cenfors, and thofe other worthy Thyficians had ^ecommended it to the Tublick. 1 confefs, the reprefenring the Names of the Mufcles in the Humane Body, and their*Uies in one View, may be of great Ad¬ vantage in your Trofeffion, and deferVes Incouragement: But as it leads to higher Confederations, 1 am obligd to commend your great < luduflry. The peculiar Frame and Ufes of the Mufcles. in Man (particular* ly of the Hands) are wonderful, as they are requifite not only in the fine Operations of your jirt, but alfo in Agriculture, Navigation, Writing, Manufacture, Building, and all forts of Mechanic Arts, (which the Brutes are not capable of) to which the exquifite Fabrick of thofe # of the Legs in fome of thefe affift. But befides, * In Tab; the Formation of the Lumbricales and Perforantes in the Hand(de- 36’ 37‘ fcriVd Tab. 21, and 24.) was requifite in the fine Stops of the Or¬ gan, and other mufecal Inftruments in the Service of the Great Creator, as the Mufcles of the * Tongue and Larynx are fubfervient to * In Tab; thofe Hymns and fraifes TVe duly offer to him-, whereas the Beafts 9) 10* (who were not defegned for that Harmony) have only one particular Note to call to their Kind, or be dijlinguijht by. It was the Con¬ federation of this, that made Galen fo fenfeble of the admirable 0econo¬ my of the Body in his TraFl de Ufu partium; and Mr. Hobbs confeffes the fame ( Lib. de Homine Cap. 1.) where reprefenting Epicurus’* Opinion, about the AutoCthones or Terrigenx, he is afhamed of it, (as l alfo knew by his ConVerfation) ; and, like a Con¬ vert of the more learned Harvey on that Subjett, as to the For* mation of the Foetus, and its Hours foment afterwards by the Breafis, ends the Qhapter in thefe Words; Qyi machinas omnes,tum Gene- rationis turn Nutstionis fatis perfpexerint, nec tamen eas a Mente aliqua conditas ordinatafq; ad fua quafq; Officia vide* rint, ipfi profeCto fine mente effe cenfendi (unt. The Make indeed of the Tarts of the Humane Body, at fife vie }>, is Very furpri^ing) and the rude Vijfeftions in the time of Galen, the Infpeclions of the Vifcera, and the Sacrifices of the dark Ages (which obtain d univerjally) gave many Glimpfes of the Great Author;. but* the Improvement of Anatomy in our times, and the Helps Tve havj by