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)

of the Eye.

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AhduBor Qculi.
So called from its A&ion in Re*
tracking the Eye from the Nose; it is
alsb called Indignabundus, becaufe it is
made use of in scornful resentments.
This like the Three Former Arises
where the Optick Nerve is Trans-
mitted ; and is Inserred like Them to
that part of the Tunica Sclerotis, that
respeds the Lesler Canthm of the Eye,
Opposite to the Implantation of the
Former (F). When these Four Right &g. il,
Muscles Ad: together, They Pull the
whole Globe of the Eye into the Or->
lit, from whence it?s Pull'd Forwards
again Dy the Two Obliqui as before.
(fertat, To tne^ Mullinete adds another,
tatwn. which he calls the Fifth Right Muscle;
•v-• the Office of which he confines to the
Motion of the Trochlea, (supposing ic
'moveable) but what he has laid con-
cerning it either as to its Existence q?
Use is sb Obscure, if not Imposfible,
that We can see no Reasbn to give it
any place or description amongsl those
other Muscles of the Eye. Neither
could we ever discover by Dissedtion
any iueh Muscle, but we suspedt
E 3 th^c