Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

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