Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

in which the skull is described, distinguished by its sutures. It should be noted in this place, however, that that former figure representing the whole head also occurs right from the beginning, on the inverted sheet of the title. Chapter XXXIII, On the eyes and their parts, we see a figure of the eye. Chapter XXXVIII, On the hands, a figure of the hands is also seen, adorned with the significations of palm-readers. Chapter XXXIX, On the chest and its parts, represents a figure of the praecordia the region over the heart. Chapter XLI, On the belly and its external parts, exhibits a figure of the muscles of the abdomen. Chapter XLII, On the back and the posterior parts, presents a figure of the vertebrae of the back and the intercostal nerves, which last three are designated with bare lines drawn with few strokes. Chapter XLIV, On the internal members in general, a figure is included concerning the position of the viscera, in which, with the middle and lowest belly opened, the viscera are shown exposed within these. This is followed in Chapter XLV, On the brain and its substance, by two others, of which the former signifies the substance, but the latter the ventricles of the brain. Then Chapter XLVII, On the lung, exhibits a figure of the lungs and the trachea; Chapter XLVIII, On the heart and its parts, represents a figure of it with the pericardium and the four major vessels; Chapter L, On the esophagus and the stomach, a figure of both and the canal of the intestines is included; Chapter LII, On the spleen and its parts, the spleen; Chapter LIII, On the liver and its parts, the liver and the portal vein; Chapter LV, On the bladder, the bladder, kidneys, and ureters; and finally in Chapter LVI, the icons of the uterus, ovaries, and, what they have added due to common error, the horns, are submitted to the eyes of the readers.