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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    INTRODUCTION. BEfore I defccnd to the defcription of each mufcle in particular, I think it requifite, for the benefit of young beginners, to give a fhort account of their ftruChire and compofi- tion in general; and, by way of introduction to that, to premife what is meant by a fibre and a membrane ; the whole being only an abridg- merit of what is found in authors, who treat of that fubjeCt at large. A fibre is called in Greek /c, in Latin jibra, which properly fignifies thofe villi or firings that hang about the roots of plants; but in an anatomical fenfe, it may be defcribed, A fubftance, in figure like a fine thread, of a tenfible and irritable nature; by the various texture and combination of which, all the folid parts of the human body are framed. Of thefe fibres there are divers kinds; for fome are membranous, fome carnous, fome cartilaginous, fome olfeous, and fome ner- B vous;