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 Neci-
These we mall call Recti Later ales,
from their Progress and Poskion ;
they may be also called Rementes La-
teralis from their Use.
Rectus Lateralis.
This is a Short, Thick, Flefliy
Muscle; Arising from the SuperioUr
part of the Extremity of the Trans-
verse Process of the first Vertebra of
the Neck, between the Former and
Obliquus Superior, thence Ascends di-
rectly to its Insertion to the Os Qcci-
fit is in the Interstice made by the
Procerus Mammillaris and Styloides, ki-Fig.uh
This nods the Head to one side.

CHAP. XXIII.
Of the Muscles of the Neck
'HE Muscles of the Neck move
the Head secondarily, where-
fore they are Esteemed as Common to
both, os which Authors reckon
Four Pair, namely the Longi Colli, the
Scaleni, (which according to Fallosfius
are described amongst the Muscles of
die