7 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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They are round and a little flat, and lefs in the feet than in the hands, excepting — 
thofe in the great toe. 2. They are moft commonly twelve in each hand, or twen- 
ty-four in both hands, and fo many in each foot. They grow to the tendons of the 
mufcles which move the fingers and toes, under which they lie, wrapped up in the 
ligaments, and come away in cleanfing the bones, unlefs great care be ufed. The 
ules of thefe /e/amoidean bones are to defend the tendons; to ftrengthen the } joints, and 
preferve them from luxation. 
The annexed plate demonftrates the fkeleton, or bones, of the human body, which _ 
confifts of239, exclufive of the /2 efamoideans, os hyoides, and bones of the ears; which, 
being added would make the total number 308. 
1. Os frontis, or frontal bone: 2. futura coronalis, or coronal future: 3. vertex 
finifter: 4, fatura fquamofa: 5. proceffus- offis {phenoides :.6. os temporis, or tem- 
poral bone: 7. proceffus maftoideus: 8. os mali: 9, offa nafi, or bones of the nofe: 
_,J0, 11, the fuperior and inferior maxillary bones: a. vertebra of the neck : 2. ver- 
tebra: of the back: ¢. vertebrae of the loins: 12. 0s facrum: 13. the fternum, or 
breaft-bone: +. the coftae: 14. the clavicula, or clavicles: 15. the fcapula: 16. 
the humerus, or arm-bones: 17. the ulna: 18. the radius: 19. the carpus, or wrift: 
_d. the metacarpus: ¢. the pollex: 7. offa digitorum manus: 20, the os ilium: o. the 
os ifchium: 22. the os pubis: 23. tuber i{chii: 24. foramen magnum: 25. os femo- — 
ris: 7. collum offis femoris: s. caput offis femoris: 26. the trochanter major : 27. 
the trochanter minor: ¢, the patella: 28. the tibia: 29. the fibula: u. the talus: 30 
the calcaneus : 31. the metatarfus : z. offa digitorum pedes. ” 
OF THE ABDOMEN, OR BELLY IN GENERAL. 
THE sbbainens isall that part, diftingwithed within (by the midriff) from the cheft 
to the os pubis. It is bounded by the cartilago mucrenata, vertebre of the loins, 05 
facrum, hip bones, os pubis, and the baftard ribs on either fide. It is divided into 
- three regions or parts: firft, the uppermoft, called epigaftrium, each fide of which 
is called Aypochondrium, lying under the griftles of the fhort ribs: it is bounded be- 
"tween the cartilago mucronata : fecondly, the middle part, called regio umbilicalis, 
which extends from three inches above the navel to three inches below it : the lower 
part, called Aypogaftrium , the lateral parts are called iaguina, the groins ; in the right 
fides of which, are parts of the colon and cecum, which are tied together; in the left, 
a great part of the colon and inteflinum reélum , the fore-part of it is called aqualiculus, 
and the loweft part, which is covered with hair, is called pubes, the fhare; the hair 
_ begins to appear here in girls about the twelfth year, but in boys about the four- 
teenth year, of age. Under this region in women are contained the bladder, matrix, 
and inteftinum recium. a 
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