52 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
pafs through the produétion of the peritoneum which they compafs nearly about, and 
pafs with the {permatic veffels to the ftones 3 they are fhorter in women than in'men, 
and are placed above the production of the peritoneum > their ule ts to fuftain-or hold 
up the ftones. “The common mufcle is the membrane of the’ /orohim ‘called Vartas, 
béing a continuation of ‘the flefhy membrane 5 and this ponte mettre a 
_ pends both tefticles. (19 os aaa 
The bladder has but one han called parr which encompaffeth eioabled 
the bladder, in an orbicular form, a8 alfo are the fibres. “It is flefhy, drawn back — 
over the profate or auxillary tefticles ; it ejaculates the feed in coition. Tn worten — 
it reaches to the hole by which the urine pafies, and it feems to form it. 9! 0"! 
The mufcles of the anus, or fundament, are either the /phinéer or the levatores', 
the /phinfter mufcle, called ani conftriftor, the fhutter or contraétor, is fiethy” (and 
without the ftraight gut two inches broad ;) arifes from the lower vertebra of the — 
os facrum, and is encompaffed with the tranfverfe fibres all along’the amus > it is fale 
ened on the foré part to the paffage of the bladder by fibrous couplings, to the yard, 
to whofe mufcles it gives beginning ; and to the neck of the womb: on the hindet 
part it is inferted into the coceyx or crupper-bone, atid ‘at the fides it is faftened into 
the os cone. The mujfeuli levatores are four, or two pair One pair of which arebroad, — 
and one narrow. Mu/culi levatores lati, atife fromm the os facrum and os ilium, tide 
inferted into the larger /phiné¥er. 'Muftuli levatores tehues, the narrow mufeles : OF Which 
the foremoft arifes from the tranfverfe ligament ; the hindermoft from’ he ote 
whereunto they are terminated: Be hae 
The mufcles of the fhoulder-blade; or /zapula, are four, according? to ei we 
of its motions, viz. forward and backward, upward and downward?’ r. ervani wimr, 
_ the fmaller faw-like mufcle, arifing from the four upper ribs, and ‘afcending “ob- 
Tiquely upwards, with an end partly flethy, partly tendinous, and is inferted into the 
capula; its ufe is to draw forwards into the breaft : 2. ‘trapezius, cuculares, atifes fethy 
from the hinder part of the head towards the ear, from whence it defcends to ‘the 
eighth vertebra of the breaft, and, from thence growing fmall by degrees, itis i rim 
into ) the back-bone, top of the fhoulder, and clavicula; it moves the /capula variot 
arding to i its oblique fibres: 3. rbomboides, or diamond-like mufcles, fcwate under 
cucilaris, thin and broad, arife from the three lower vertebrd of the neck anc ‘* 
_ three upper vertebra of the breaft, and in the fame breadth are inferted ‘nto the i 
_ ternal bafis of the Seapula ; it draws back a littie obliquely upwards: * lee wi | 
culus patientie, arifes from the tranfverfe apophyfes of the fecond, third, an Live y 
vertebra of the neck, and is inferted into the higher and lower’ corners of the, on Ade 
its ufeis ve te cae ee | hd 
