84. Orang-Outang Jive Homo Syheflris : Or, 



THE 



MYOTOMY 



OR 



DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



MUSCLES. 



Of the Mufcles of the Abdomen. 



THE Ohljquuf DefcefTdef!s(^Fig. ^^.^B.") agreed in it's fituation 

 and progrefs, with that of a Humane Body , as the accurate 

 G<«/e«and Fe/^/7*sf defcribe it, and did not partly fpring from 

 any of the Tranfverfe ProceJJes of the Vertebra o^ the Loins ; or 

 their Ligaments and Membranes, as the later Writers would have it in 

 Htm/ane Bodies. Neither did any part of the Obliqiius Afcendens (Fig. 

 5. 59.) arife from t\iQ Lumbal Vertebra^ as Vefalim defcribes it in Men : 

 but agreed with the Defcription of Galen, and did not differ from the 

 Humane. Drelrncourt obferves the like in Jpes : The fame Author takes 

 notice, that the Pyramidales are wanting in thofe Animals'.^ which were 

 abfent alfo in the Pygmk. The Re£lus (Fig. 5. 40.) agreed with the 

 Humane, and had no Connexion with a Mufcular Portion, fpringing 

 either from the ClavJada or firO: Rib, as Vefalim has figured Gden's De- 

 fcription of it in Apes and Dogs. The Parifians fay, In Monkeys H af- 

 cends to the top, pajjlng under the Pedoralis and Little Serratus , H tvas 

 Flejhy only to the half of the Sternum, the reli being but a meer Tendon. Dre- 

 I'mcourt obferves the Tendinom Infcriptions of thefe Mufcles in Apes.y ap- 

 peared only on their infide, and not on the out. The Tranfuerfalk in 

 this, as in moft ^tadrupeds, did not differ from that in Man. 



The 



