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which I shall have occasion to describe here- 

 after. Each thread or fibre of each muscle is 

 also connected to each other fibre which lies 

 next to it, by the same sort of cellular or 

 woolly membrane. 



Thus, as you see, a mass of lean flesh, such 

 as we boil, and such as we see on cutting into 

 the limbs or other parts of an animal, consists 

 of smaller bundles of flesh, connected together 

 by the cellular membrane, but not so tightly as 

 to hinder each bundle or muscle from moving 

 or sliding about a little among the rest. Now 

 each muscle, in like manner, consists of a great 

 multitude of fibres, also connected together by 

 cellular membrane. It is also thought by 

 many anatomists, that each fibre is made up of 

 a great many smaller fibres, so small as not to 

 be seen by the naked eye. 



The number of muscles in the human body 

 is very great. Anatomists do not agree about 

 the number, because there are many which 

 some reckon as only one muscle, while others 

 call them two, (for they have really a double 

 appearance ;) and because a few are so small 

 that some do not count them. They are 



