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)

128 Os theMuscles
the Thorax) the sransversales and Sfi-
nati Colli. But nrst of thole that ap-
pear in the Fore* part.
• Longus Colli.
This Arises partly Tendinous, but
chiessy sselhy from the Fore-part of
the Five Superiour Vertebra of the
Thorax, and being dilated in its mid-
die to a sselhy Belly , is Inserted to
the Fore-part of all the Vertebra of die
Neck.
This with its Partner Acting bends
the Neck right forwards-Between this
c*o.xi. an^ tne Scalenus s (descrnVd Chap
XIX.) lies the Re&us internus Major,
describ'd in the precedent Chapter,
which Vessingius calls Musculus Bre-
<vius.
The Body must be now turn'd on
its Face again in order to examin the
rest of the Mufcles that appear on
the Back part of its Trunk.
Spinalis Colli.
So called, because it accompanies
the Spines of the Neck, it arises from
the Five Superiour Transvers Proces-
ces