' , A 
DESCRIPTION 
OF ALL THE 
BURS^ MUGOSiE 
I 
O F T H K 
HUMAN BODY- 
Sect. i. . ' 
INTRODUCTION. 
A lthough the organs of which chiefly I am about to treat form 
a very curious part of our ftru^ture, the knowledge of which will be 
frequently found of ufe in pradtice ; yet the fubjed has been very unaccount- 
ably overlooked even by the latefl; and moll accurate anatomifts, and of courfe 
is little underftood by phyficians and furgeons. 
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It has been long and generally known to anatomifts, that the tendons of the 
mufcles, at the wrifts and ancles, and in their courfe along the fingers and toes, 
are conduded in Iheaths ; and it did not efcape the obfervation of the accurate 
Winflow, that thefe ligamentary flieaths are lined with thin and fmooth mem- 
branes (a). Still later, the very accurate B. S. Albinus difcovered Ihut facs, 
B where 
(a) Wiiiflow, Exp. An. Tr. des os frais, 286. 
