70 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
‘the fingers to the metacarpium. Above and beneath they have epiphy/es : by the up 
‘ “per, they are joined to the carpus, OF wrift ; by the lower, they enter into the hollow. p 
nels of the fingers. pth 
“The bones of the fingers are in number fifteen, each of them having three bones, 
and anfwering the bones of the metacarpus, the thumb excepted. The thumb has 
no conneétion with the. bones of the metacarpium, becaule it is articulate with the 
wrilt, witha manifeft motion ; whereas the bones of the palm are joined to the writk 
without manifelt motion ;. as alfo becaufe, the upper of the thumb is fhorter than 
the bones of the metacarpium, and not. anfwerable to them. Each finger has liga- 
_ments on their infides, according to their length, like channels, whereby they are 
faftened one to another. 
The thigh has but one bone, which ts the greateft ae longett i in the. whole body, 
In its fuperior extremity, the head is round, to which a flender part is added, called 
the neck ; from the neck are two apophy/es produced, to which the muicles, called 
rotatores, are faftened, and therefore they are called trochanters. The lower, part of 
the thigh has two low prominences or heads, called condyli, a cavity, being left. be- 
-tween ofa thumb’s breadth, through which the. veffels pafs, with a nerve, of. the 
fourth pair, which cavity alfo admits the middle and, eminent apophyfi 5 Of | the tibia 
or leg: in like manner the condyli are received by. the cavities of _ the leg, by a: loofe 
articulation, called ginglymus : the inner of thefe heads is more thick, the outer more 
broad and flat. The upper part of this articulationis called . the knee, the. sl 
moft the ham. 
‘o The patella, or knee-pan, is fomewhat round, about two inches aad ea cae 
, out having many.holes, but within bunched,,and there covered..with a cartilage : 
“its fubftance i in young children is cartilaginous, but in grown perfons boney 5, its 
figure i is almoft like a buckler or fhield; its fituation is upon the jointing. of the 
_thigh and leg, where the knee is compaffed with a membranous ligament, the patella 
~excepted. , It grows.to, andis faftened by, certain thick tendons of fome mutfcles of 
the thigh ; as the fecond, third, and fourth, mufcles, which extend the tibia, and 
pafs.by the knee toit, and are inferted into the fore-knob of it ; its ufe is taken from : 
olts fituation, being fet before the thigh-bone and #ibia, to ftrengthen the articulation, 
left the thigh-bone, in going down any hill, fhould. Ain. out forwards ; as iis to de- 
fendthe tendons of the mufcles. i aved 
_ The fhank, or leg, is compofed of two bones ; the.one, piss the. inner. and the 
greater, is called tibia; the other fibula. Tibia, the fhank-bone, has in its upper 
part a procefs in the middle, which is received by the cavity of the thigh-bone it 
isjoined to the thigh-bone by, ginglymus :, the fidula. only, cleaves, to the, ei 
