Cowper, William: Myotomia Reformata: Or A New Administration Of All The Muscles Of Humane Bodies: Wherein The true Uses of the Muscles are Explained, the Errors of former Anatomists concerning them Confuted, and several Muscles not hitherto taken notice of Described ; T whick are subjoin'd, A Graphical Description of teh Bones, And other Anatomical Observations (London, 1694)

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of many Links of a Rhombcidd or Lozenge
Figure. Each of these Fihrilla are much
smaller than the flnest Hair, Their Figure
is Cylindrical, their Internal substance is
porous like a Hair, with this difference, to
wit, the Pores of That are more numerous
and less, and in This the Pores are larger and
fewer ; which we mall have occasion to men-
tion in examining the Dislribution of the
Bloud VesTels.
The Nerves accompany the Bloud Venels
at their Jngress into Muftles; and are distri-
buted to all their Carnous Fibres: some have
thought the Head of the Mufcie to be the
place of their Insertions, but that opinion
has been long since exploded, it being evi-
dent that divers Mufcles receive two or three
Branches of Nerves in differing parts of
7hem. How the Extremities of Nerves Ter-
minate in These and other Parts, is still like-
ly to be a secret in Nature, since neither the
Naked Eye, or any Microscopes yet known,
are capable of rendering it a matter of A'u-
topsie. The examination of Nerves by the
Microsccpe doth essiciently inform us, that"
nothing that has been said of them hitherto
is lest probable, than that They are employed
in conveying any Part of the Succtts Nutri-
tiw to other, parts, which some have so
grossy dream't of. -Tis true that an Atro-
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