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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    This was the prevailing opinion in Colum¬ bus’s time. Vid. Reald. Columb. de re anat. lib. v. cap. xxii. De Mufculis. 3. The Linea alba is nothing but part of the tendons of thefe oblique and tranfverfe mufcles appearing in the interftice of the Re&i, between the cartilago Ziphoides and the Os Pubis, and adhering firmly to one another in this place ; which flridt union occafions the whitenefs to be more confpicuous here than in any other part. So that it was only in compliance with cuftom, that I faid their ten¬ dons were inferted into this white line. 4. They are all three perforated a little above the Os Fe&inis to one fide, the two oblique in their tendinous, and the tranfverfe in its flefhy part, for the palfage of the Proceffus Peritonsei, receiving the Vas deferens and the fpermatic vein and artery, inclofed in a large membrane ,.diftin<T from the elongation of the Perito¬ naeum. But befides thefe, I always obferve a nerve and an artery pafs that way from the Abdomen to the Scrotum, Inguen, and upper part of the Femur ; from whence fome venal twigs are remitted thro* the fame holes into that cavity. The Cremafler mufcle does only pierce the two oblique mufcles. The furpri- ling