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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34839	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 : to which are subjoin'd a graphical description of the bones, and other anatomical observations : illustrated with figures after the life / by William Cowper, Surgeon.	Cowper, William, 1666-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing C6700; ESTC R28571	97,302	335

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 To which are subjoin'd A Graphical Description of the Bones And other Anatomical Observations Illustrated with Figures after the Life By WILLIAM COWPER Surgeon LONDON Printed for Sam. Smith and Ben. Walford at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIV Librum hunc Cui Titulus MYOTOMIA REFORMATA c. dignum judicamus qui Imprimatur Thomas Burwell Praeses Censores Samuel Collins Fr. Slare William Dawes Tancred Robinson Viris Expertissimis ROGERO KNOWLES Magistro Reliquisque Gubernatoribus Societatis Chirurgorum Londinensium NEC NON Doctissimis Ornatissimisque D. D bus EDVARDO BROWN ATQUE EDVARDO TYSON Coll. Regal Med. Lond. Sociis ATQUE Anatomiae Praelectoribus in Anphitheatro Celeberrimae Societatis Chirurgorum MYOTOMIAM Hanc Observantiae ergo D. D. D. GUILIELMUS COWPER THE PREFACE IN the Contemplation of NATURE we meet with nothing that affords us A more Invincible Argument of the WISDOM of the DIVINE ARCHITECT than the Structure and Composition of ANIMAL BODIES nor are the effects of that INFINITE UNDERSTANDING more visible in any parts of an Animal Body than in the INSTRUMENTS of VOLUNTARY MOTION whose Variety and Contrivances are both Admirable In this respect ANATOMICAL DISQUISITIONS are exceedingly entertaining but besides it behooves PHILOSOPHERS who inquire into the Nature of Things and PHYSICIANS especially whose province it is to preserve the CURIOUS FABRIC of the HUMAN BODY to acquaint Themselves fully with the Nature and Constitution of that NOBLE SUBIECT for that is the only way to learn what are the Secret Springs by which the Mysterious Operations of SENSE and MOTION are performed to discover the CAUSES and SEATS of DISEASES and their SYMPTOMS and the proper Methods of CURING and PREVENTING them What Opinion the most Iudicious and Best of Men had of Enquiries of this Nature even in their Infancy we may learn from our Great Master HIPPOCRATES who was sent for to DEMOCRITUS the Founder of the Mechanical Philosophy to cure Him of his supposed Madness and finding Him Dissecting the Bodies of Animals to discover the seat of the Bile and assign the reasons of its Effects was so far from looking upon Him to be Mad that He pronounced Him the Wisest Man in his Country Nor is the Story that is told of our Modern Philosopher DES CARTES less remarkable who shew'd a Gentleman that came to see his Library nothing but a Calf which he design'd to Dissect But it is needless at this time to Enlarge either upon the Usefulness of ANATOMY in general or the particular Advantages of an Exact Knowledge of MYOLOGY in order to the PRACTICE of CHIRURGERY and therefore I shall wave what might be said upon those Heads and only give a short History of the Advancements that have been made in MUSCULAR ANATOMY in several Ages and the Reasons why I undertook to Write upon that Subject Without doubt HIPPOCRATES was well skill'd in ANATOMY as it appears by his Books De Glandulis De Fracturis c. ARISTOTLE Dissected many Animals before He began to Compose their History of which we have only a few Fragments RUFFUS EPHESIUS had also made some Progress herein and gave the External parts their proper Names GALEN and the Anatomists of his time were indefatigable in their Anatomical Labours as appears not only from those Excellent Books of his Of Anatomical Administration and Of the Use of Parts but in that Compendious System of the Muscles collected out of Them by ORIBASIUS Before and after whom we find no considerable progress made in ANATOMY till the Rise of the Accurate Jacobus Sylvius and Andreas Vesalius about the middle of the last Century There have been indeed divers Others who have Written of ANATOMY as Alcmaeus Crotoniata Diocles Carystius Erasistratus and Herophilus of which the two Latter are said to have Taught ANATOMY Publickly and to have Dissected many Hundreds of Human Bodies in Greece Syria and Aegypt GALEN was a Disciple of the last but we have none of their Writings now extant Besides These there are Others mentioned by Galen as Lycus Quintus who was Lycus's Master and Marianus but we shall not repeat their Names since their Observations afford Us no occasion to mention them hereafter Amongst the many ARABIANS that have Written on this Subject Avicenna is esteemed the Chief and amongst the Ancient LATINES Mundinus is reckon'd the First whose Works are Commented on by Jacobus Berengarius Carpensis and Curtius but neither of these furnish Us with any discoveries in Myology THOMAS DE ZERBIS is also mentioned but his Writings are supposed to be Collected from the Observations of Others NICOLAUS MASSA a Physician of Venice is reputed A Benefactor to Anatomy and mentioned by * Anthropog Lib. ii Cap. viii Riolan to have first Observ'd the Musculi Pyramidales described by Falloppius CAROLUS STEPHANUS assisted by the Industrious Hand of STEPHEN RIVERIUS a CHIRURGEON as Riolan Writes was a Diligent Improver of this Art and Illustrated it with Figures before Vesalius but we were never so fortunate as to see either of these Three last mentioned JACOBUS SYLVIUS was an Accurate Anatomist of his time He Wrote an Admirable Commentary on Galen's Book of the Bones and an Answer to the Calumnies of Vesalius whom He calls Vesanus After his Death was Published that Incomparable Piece Intituled Isagoge Anatomica wherein He digested the MUSCLES and Vessels into order which were Treated of confusedly before by Galen Vesalius Columbus and Falloppius and gave Them their NOMENCLATURE still Used by ANATOMISTS Before Sylvius or at the same time FERNELIUS and JOHANNES GUINTERUS ANDERNACUS were Contemporaries but neither of Them have made any Improvements in the Knowledge of the MUSCLES ANDREAS VESALIUS began very young to examine the Parts of several Animals in which Study by a VVonderful Sagacity and peculiarity of Genius he made a swift but Steddy Progress He was * Scholar to Guinterus as himself confesseth in his Institution Anatom ac Lib. de Veteri Nova Medicina and a Disciple to Sylvius as He acknowledges in the PREFACE to his first Impression De Fabrica Humani Corporis Printed in the year 1543 which passage is left out in the second Published in the year 1555. And here it may not be amiss to take notice by the by of another difference between these two Editions to wit that the Figures of the Former are much finer but the Descriptions are more Correct in the Latter Indeed much is owing to this Great Man whose Accounts of the MUSCLES as well as all other Parts that were known to Him are generally very faithfully delivered He was Contemporary with REALDUS COLUMBUS GABRIEL FALLOPPIUS VALVERDA and BARTHOLOMAEUS EUSTACHIUS all excellent Anatomists especially the Two Former the First of which and CAESALPINUS started