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 Backhand Loins.
Ends (too numerous to specifie here)
is to be moved Forewards,Backwards,
and Sideways, and therefore by no
other means could be supported sb as
to render it upon occasion Flexible,
but by Muscles, since they only are
capable of a greater Contraction and
Relaxation than any other Springy
Bodies competed of Ligaments, ejre.
Thus having briefly Treated of allthose
Mufcles, its jet known that appear in the
Trunk o s the Body; we come next to those
belonging to the Artus, and sirfi of those
that move the Arm ; two os which,
namely, the Pecloralis & Longissimus,
we were obliged to DiJfec7,Pag. 104.1 ix.
to difcover their Subjacent Mufcles, but
we fhall now describe them amongfl the
reft, as the order of Disseaion requires ;
for the convenient Performance of which,
we are wont to take of the whole Arm to-
gether, with the Scapula andClavicula,
by dividing the latter from the Os Pe-
ctoris, by which means the trouble in
examining the following Mufcles is lejsened,
those moving the Scapula being Cut
srom it.

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