Cursus osteologicus : being a compleat doctrine of the bones ; according to the newest, and most refin'd notions of anatomy ... / To which is annex'd ... an excellent method of ... preparing ... the bones, to form a movable skeleton.

  • Baker, Robert
Date:
1697
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Credit: Cursus osteologicus : being a compleat doctrine of the bones ; according to the newest, and most refin'd notions of anatomy ... / To which is annex'd ... an excellent method of ... preparing ... the bones, to form a movable skeleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The firft of thefe Vertebre is call’d Renaiis | Renalis, the Kidneys being lodged at ) the fide ofit ; the other four have no | particular Name. ves The Os Sacrum, or holy Bone, fo _ ? : Os Sacrum. call’d, asfome think, becaufe the An- tients ufed.to fave this part as Sacred it | anSacrifices; butI think rather from Teper» as the Greeks cal] it, which fignifies Magnum; as well as Sacrum ir} at being the biggeft Bone of all the 0) Spine. It’s immoveable , and ferves wt) asa Bafis or Pedeftal to the. whole a) Spine; it’s ofa fomewhat triangular fh) Figure, withthe point downwards ; yi.) dts Concavous within, which helps ut) toform the Pelvis, alfo fmooth 5 bes we) “hind it’s Convex, and unequal, many bt) “Mufcles arifing, and being inferted fi.) here, itfeemsas if it were compofed we) Of five or fix Bones, C asindeed it isin ) Infants ) its Offification beginning at | fomany points, but its edges, or ra- | ther, af you will, irs tranfverfe Pro- | -cefles Jook but like one continued pl “Bone, as itis + the Foramen Spinale towards its lower part is very {mall ; | ats Foramina Nervina are before and | Fog behind,