A compendious system of anatomy - in six parts ...; illustrated with twelve large copperplates (1792) (14776559121)

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Title: A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Fyfe, Andrew, 1754-1824 Bell, Andrew, 1726-1809 Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, printer
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Extracted from the American edition of the Encyclopedia now publishing, by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, Second-Street, Philadelphia
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine



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^ ^ — n< Part III. OF THE ABDOMEN. 327 ducts which fend off the vafa deferentia. i i,The fubftance of the tefticle. Fi c. 6. The right Tefticle entire, and the Epi-didymis filled with Mercury. A, The beginning of the vas deferens. B,The vas deferens afcending towards the abdomen.C, The pofterior part of the epididymis, namedglobus minor. D, The fpermatic veffels inclofed incellular fubftance. E, The body of the epidy-dimis. F, Its head, named globus major. G, Itsbeginnning from the tefticle. H, The body ofthe tefticle, inclofed in the tunica albuginea. PART IV, 32-3 OF THE THORAX. Iart IV. PAR T IV.OF T H E T H Q R A X. THE thorax, or chest, is that cavityof the trunk which extends from the cla-vicles, or the lower part of the neck, to the litphragm, and includes the vital organs, whichare the heart and lungs ; and likewife the tra-chea and cefophagus.—This cavity is formed bythe ribs and vertebra of the back, covered by agreat number of mufcles, and by the. commoninteguments,