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cle acts.'. The fourth pair, called reé#i majores, are fmall, flelay, and lean, and {pring 
_ from the edge of the fecond fpondil or vertebra of the neck, ending in the middle of 
the occiput. The fifth pair, called refi minores, lie concealed under the former, 
proceeding from the back part of the firft {pondil, or vertebra of the neck, and is 
inférted into the occiput; its ufe is the fame with the. third and fourth pair, The 
fixth pair is called ob/iqui majores , it lies beneath and {prings from the procefs of the 
firft vertebra, and ends in the occiput, by the outfide of the reff. The feventh pair 
is called obliqui-minores, it arifes from the fecond vertebra of the neck, is inferted 
into the tran{verfe procefs of the firlt vertebra, and terminates in the occiput + the ufe 
of thefe two oblique pair is to bring the head about to the fides... The eighth pair, 
called ‘maftoides, is placed in the forepart ; they arife for the moft part double, longs 
and round, in the forepart of the neck, from the upper part of the feruum ot brea{t- 
bone, and-midft of the elavicula, and is obliquely inferted into the mammillary, 
procefs, which itembraces; its ufe is to turn the head, The ninth pair, called 
fallopiani, \ies under the throat in the forepart of the neck, and near the firit pair of 
the neck ; it arifes nervous from the ligaments of the vertebra of the neck, and is 
inferted into the bafis of the head, which itturns in like manner asthe former. 
The mutfcles of the forehead have their original from the upper parts of the fore- 
head and skull, near the coronal future, and, being fpread out upon the bone there- 
of, they end at the eye-brows, that they might lift them up, being fevered in the 
midft of the forehead, right above the nofe; but knit at the fides to the temporal 
mufcles. | di Ase 
The mufcles of the occipus, or hind part of the head, are rather membranes, which 
draw. backwards the skin of the head, in fuch perfons as haye the skin moveable. 
The two eye-lids are moved by-four mutcles: the firft is the frentalis, which ee 
ftraight, belonging to the upper .eye-lid, to lift up the brow. BS a ae 
mufculus ciliaris primus, which compaffes about each of the eye-lids. The t , Sa “ 
mufiulus ciliaris fecundus, which is drawn out under the eye-lids, and arifing from 
circumference af the ordita, or focket of the eye; the ufe of thele ciliaris as tS fhut 
the eye-lids, ‘The fourth is ordicularis major ; it is of a finger’s breadth, sig igiba 
the furface of the orbita, or focket, and being placed under each eye-lid, and reach- : 
ing as far as the eye-brow, it clofely fhuts the eye-lids, by Iifting up the lower, and 
drawing down the eye-brow. 
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