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)

o Os the Muscles
Spines of each Vertebra, which upon
Examination proved to be so many-
Pair of Muscles, as there was Inster-
stices between the said Spines. And
in those Bodies that have the Spinal
Process of the last Vertebra somewhat
Broader than it is commonly found;
we have seen Five Pair of these Mus-
cles, which from their Situation we
call Interfpinales Colli.
Interspinales Colli.
These are small Flelhy Muscles,
arising from the Superior parts of
each double Spinal Process of the
Neck (b, c} d, e,f,) except that of the Fis-
Second Vertebra (a), and are Inserted
to the Inferior parts of all the said
double Spines. LL. Figi
When these Muscles Ac!:, they
draw the Spines of the Vertebra of
the Neck nearer each other. Thefe
wefirst discover'd in the year 1690.

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