The anatomy of the humane body / By W. Cheselden.

  • Cheselden, William, 1688-1752.
Date:
1750
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Credit: The anatomy of the humane body / By W. Cheselden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pyramidal is arifes from the os pubis, and is inferted into the linea alba about three or four inches below the navel: this and its fellow are of¬ ten wanting. Rectus arifes tendinous from the os pubis, but flefhy. when the pvramidales are wanting, and is inferted into the lower part of the fternum, near the cartikgo enfiformis. This mufcle is divided in¬ to four or five portions by tranfvei fe tendinous in- teriedions, that it might conveniently bend when the body is bowed forwards, though this mufcle fhould be then in adion; and thefe interfedions are chiefly above the navel, where it is mod liable to be bent: befides being thus divided, its chief pref- fure will not be in its middle, but under the feve- ral bellies of the mufcle, and the greatefl: bekrw the navel, where is the longeft flefhy belly of this muf¬ cle, and where the parts in the abdomen feem to want mod to be fupported. Transversalis arifes by aflat tendon fromi the tranfverfe procefles of the lumbal vertebrae, and I flefhy from the infide of the ribs below the dia-v phragm, and from the fpine of the ilium ; then, be¬ coming a flat tendon, it paffes under the redus to its infertion into the linea alba. Between this ten¬ don and the peritoneum fometimes water is found! in great quantities, which diftemper is called the; dropfy in the duplicature of the peritoneum 3 whichi fhews this membrane has been miftook for part off the peritoneum. _ ^iiese-