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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since I hear my Ingenious Friend Dr. Ridiy,
Will Publish his Accurate An■atomicat'-Jjeftuns
lately Read in the Amphitheatre cs the Cvlledgt,
os Phyfaians, wherein He has touched on
this particular.
The Blond Fejsels of each Mufcle, like those
of other Parts, are Arteries and, Feins, of
which the former import Bloud into it, and
the satter convey it back again to the Heart.
How These transmit their contents to each
other, has been a Controversie among Ana-
tomists, rill the Industrious Leejrenhotk, by
the Assiftance of his Microfcove, discovered
those Vesiels in the Tfani parent Fimbria of
the Tail of an Eele, on Lacerta aquatic a, to
be continued Channels, without the intcrpo-
sition of any Spongioid Body, which Aha-
tomists had so long imagined, which pleasmg
Phenomenon, is commonly de-
monstraced by those Improved * Living in Ab-
■ Microscopes made by Mr. * Ast I- chm'ch iarre*
lang, that 'tis needless to (ay more os it in
this place : Wherefore I sliall proceed to re-
late what osTer'd it self in an Experiment \
lately made, by Inje&ing Mercury into the
great Artery of the Arm, which not only
provd what Borctlus had observYi, that even
the Fleshy Fibres of Muscks are in thcmfelves
white, and that their red Tincture is from
Blond, but was an Intimation of a peculiar
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