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ment, and are therefore called griftly ligaments; yet, though it be hard, it is fexi- 
ble and tough, becaufe encompafied with vifcous flimy matter. As to their con- 
nection, fome conftitute parts in themfelves, as that of the nofe; others grow to the 
‘bones which knit them together, without any other meditim,: asin the thare or 
‘breaft-bones; or by common ligaments ee ae as ‘in’ oe tmeris = 
: loofe articulation. ? 
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feterhe he Phds 24.) 
Ae ah me Pemregpion ~ t 
vs TENDON i isia fimilar, rect folid, part, cold:and Fic’ having.s, respligl 
fubftance, continued from the beginning to the end of a. mufele,, and the; chiefelt 
part thereof upon which the action of the mufcle depends, and ao where.to be found 
out of a mufcle. It has a nervous-like fubftance, yet extremely differing.from.a 
“Herve, white, thick, hard, fmooth, and extended according to the length of the muf- 
‘ele, being ten times bigger than a nerve. _ Its figure is either folid and sound, asin 
‘the wufculus ciceps, or plain and membranous, as in the muicles of the abdomen, 
being alfo either fhort or long, and-of a uniform fubftance in.all its parts; fo that, 
if itis nervous at the beginning, fo it is.at the end; but fometimes it is nervous’at 
‘the end, ‘when the head of it is flefhy; and, if its beginning is like fmall ftrings, 
they are united to form the tendon afterwards. The hard and ftiff tendons have 
much fat about them, to foften them, that they may be the more pleafantly moved; 
and therefore thofe fibres difperfed among the flefh are nothing elfe but the tendon 
divided, and the tendon nothing elfe but fibres united; and therefore a tendon is 
either folid compat, and united, or elfe difgregated, fevered, and divided into fibres. 
United i is, where the whole tendinous part appears white, and hard, either in the 
beginning, end, or middle, or in all thofe parts. Severed or divided, when produced 
_ into innimerable. fmall fibres, fcarce aucerainls to the fight ; being compafied abous 
with fleth, 
si 
¢eci- 
OF ‘THE FaT. 
-BATI isa fimilar, foft, oily, white, infenfible, part: made to — ic side 
“heat, to help chylification; to facilitate motion, to moiften other parts, and.to nourifh 
the body in famine. Its fubftance is twofold, viz. greafe and-fuet, which, although 
“it is fomewhat folid, yet, is foft and oily, as may be perceived by handling ::preafe 
Or a@xungia is eafily. melted, but not. foveafily congealed: feuum or fuet isnot fo 
_ eafily melted, -but more eafily hardened, Its origin is from the. thinner parts of | 
“the blood, fweating through: the veins! like dew, -and congealing about the» fle(h : 
- this js. the effential matter of fat; its efficient caufe is a moift and tempe: aterheat, 
ene is alfo the quality. thereof ;) the caufe of its congealing is the-coldnels of th 
AS; -. membranes. 
