6 The Anatomy of a HORSE. Chap. II. 



CHAP. II. 



Oj the 'Lower Belly. 

 § L Of its f roper Invefliture and Teguments. 



BY the Lower Belly is to be underftooJ all that Cavity 

 which is below the Midriff, and is encorrpafied by the 

 Short-ribs, the Point of the Breafl:-bone,Loins,Hanch-bones 

 and Share bones, and is fiU'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 Pcritonaum. 



The Mufcles are of different Shapes and 

 Fi-vePairof figures, according to their f^veral Ufes. 

 ^lihelXt"^ Thefe on the lower Belly are divided into 

 %U °^^'' ^^^ Pair; the uppcrmoft are called the 



^' oblique defcendingy\.\x{L\Q%^ and derive their 



Ori'~'in from the Sides of the Breaft bone, the Points of 

 fome of the lowermoll: Ribs, v.here they refemble tlie 

 Teeth of a Saw ; from the Tips of the Crofs-procelles of 

 the Joinings of the Rack-bone in the Loins, 

 ^/v oblique and run Hoping downwards into the white 

 defcendwg Pair, Line, which is only a tendinous Subf^ance, 

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

 cles 9S meet and are determined in it ; and reaches from 

 ti)e Point of the Sword- l:ke Clrillle of the Breaft-bone, as 

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

 yniiddle. Thefe two Mufcles have their Infertion from 

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



The next are the i?/;//^//^ afcending Pair; 

 Iht oblique jj^^,^ jj^g [iqxvl the upper part of the Haunch- 

 afcendmg Pa^r. ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ Procelles of the Vertc- 

 3r^ of the Loins, ZT\d Oi Jacrum-, and taking a contrary 

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

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

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

 vel. Thtir Action is different from the former; for as 

 thofe draw the lower Part of the Belly lideways, towards 

 the Bread, from whence they ariCe, lb thefe draw down 

 The Chell fomewh.it a/lant towards the Loins. 

 Thtfireight The third Pair are called the RcBi, or 



T?:;. Itrcight Mufcle§ j becaufc their Fibres run in 



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