6 The Anatomy of a HORSE, Chap. IL 



CHAP. II. 



Of the Lower Belly, 

 § I. Of its proper Inveffiture and Teguments, 



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Y the Lower Belly is to be underftood all that Cavity 

 v/hich is below the Midriff, and is encompafled by the 

 Short-rihs, the Point of the Bread- bone,Loins,Hanch-bones 

 and Share- bones, and is fill'd with Guts and other Entrails. 



The proper Teguments of the Lower Belly, are the 

 Mufcles, and the Membrane which lies under them, call'd 

 the Feritonaum, 



The Mufcles are of different Shapes and 

 Five Pair of Figures, according to their feveral Ufes. 



Mufcles belong ^j^^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^^^ g^^l^ ^^^ ^w\^tA into 



to^theio'wer ^^^ p^.^ . ^j^^ uppermoll are called the 

 ^ •^' oblique defcendlng Mufcles, and derive their 



Orifyin from the Sides of the Breaft- bone, the Points of 

 fome of the lowermoft Ribs, where they refemble the 

 Teeth. of_^ Saw ; from the Tips of the Crofs-procefles of 

 "^ the Joinings of the Rack- bone in the Loins, 



^ht oblique and run Hoping downwards into the white 

 defending? air. Line, which is only a tendinous Subflance, 

 form'd by the Endings of fuch of thofe Muf- 

 cles as meet and are determined in it ; and reaches from 

 the Point of the Sword- like Griftle of the Breaft-bone, as 

 low as the Share-bone, dividing the lower Belly in the 

 middle. Thefe two Mufcles have their Infertion from 

 below the Navel downwards, to the End of that Line. 



The next are the oblique afcending Pair ; 

 the oblique ^^^ j-jf-g fj-^j^ the upper part of the Haunch- 

 afcending Pair. ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ Proceil'es of the Verte- 

 bra of the Loins, and Os facrum ; and taking a contrary 

 Courfe to thofe above defcrib'd, they are inferted partly 

 on the Ends of the fhort Ribs, and partly on the white 

 Line, from the Point of the Breafl-bone down to the Na- 

 vel. Their A6lion is different from the former ; for as 

 thofe draw the lower Part of the Belly fideways, towards 

 the Breaft, from whence they arife, fo thefe draw down 

 the Cheft fomewhat aflant towards the Loins. 

 V^t freight The third Pair are cilled the Re5li, or 



/'^/r. ftreight Mufcles, ; becaufe their Fibres.run in 



