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)

10 2 Of the Muscles
of the Neck {nn)% and Defending ng.xvul
Obliquely Forwards, becomes Ten-
dinons at its Insertion to theFirst
Rib (/'); The Axiliary Nerves pass Fig. xvii.
between This and the Following
Muscle.
Its Use is to draw the superior Rib
together with the rest Upwards in In-
spiration,
Vefdi. m. Scalenus Sccundm.
T. 14. m.
This springs Fleshy from the Se-
cond, Third, Fourth and Fifth Trans-
verse Procesles of the Vertebra of the
Neck (n ri), laterally (like the Former); mgxtm,
in itsDescent it becomes Thin,andTen-
dinous, marching over the Firlt Rib
to its Insertion in the Second and iomc-
times to the Third.
IdmN- Scalenus Tertius.
This has its Beginning near the
Former, from the same Transverse
Processes of the Fertehr* of the Neck;
as alio from the Fifth and Sixth of
those Precedes, and is sooa Inserted
to the First Rib,

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