The Compleat Surgeon: or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method.Le Clerc, M. (Charles Gabriel)
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The Compleat Surgeon: or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method.
Le Clerc, M. (Charles Gabriel)
Surgery -- Early works to 1800
The two Muscles on each side, which move the Head circularly, are the
_Obliquus Major_ and {22} _Minor_; the _greater Oblique_ taking its rise
from the second _Vertebra_ of the Neck, goes to meet the first; but the
_lesser Oblique_ hath its Origine in the hinder part of the Head, and
proceeds to join the other obliquely in the first _Vertebra_.
_How many Muscles are there in the Lower-Jaw, and which be they?_
The Lower-Jaw hath twelve Muscles which cause it to move; that is to say,
six on each side, whereof four serve to close and two to open it.
The first of the Openers is the _Latus_, which beginning at the top of the
_Sternum_, Clavicle, and _Acromion_, cleaves on the outside to the bottom
of the Lower-Jaw-Bone. The second of the Openers is the _Digastricus_,
which takes its rise in a Fissure lying between the Occipital Bone and the
_Apophysis Mastoides_, from whence it passeth to the bottom of the Chin on
the inside.
The first of the Shutters is the _Crotaphites_ or Temporal Muscle, which
hath its Origine at the bottom, and on the side of the _Os Coronale_, the
_Os Parietale_, and the _Os Petrosum_, from whence it is extended till it
cleaves to the _Apophysis Coronoides_ of the Lower-Jaw, after having passed
above the _Apophysis_ of the _Zygoma_: Its Fibres are spread from the
Circumference to the Center, and it is covered again with the
_Pericranium_, which renders its Wounds very dangerous; so that the least
Incisions as can be, ought to be made therein.
The second is the _Pterygoideus_ or _Aliformis Externus_, whose rise is in
the _Apophysis Pterygoides_, from whence it sets forward till it stick
between the _Condylus_ and the Coronal of the Lower-Jaw.
The third is the _Masseter_, which hath two {23} Sources or Beginnings, and
as many Insertions; the first Source thereof is at the Cheek-Knot or Ball
of the Cheek, and the second at the lower part of the _Zygoma_. The first
Insertion is at the outer Corner of the Jaw, and the second in the middle
part, by that means forming the Figure of the Letter X.
The fourth is the _Pterygoideus_ or _Aliformis Internus_, which hath its
beginning in the _Apophysis Pterygoides_, and is terminated in the inner
Corner of the Jaw; so that Mastication or Chewing is perform'd by the means
of these four Muscles.
_How many Muscles are there in the Face, and which be they?_
There are two for the Forehead, call'd _Frontal_, whose Origine is in the
upper part of the Head, from whence they descend by streight Fibres, until
they are fasten'd in the Skin of the Forehead near the Eye-Brows, where
they are re-united: Their Action or Office is to draw the Skin of the
Forehead upward, whereto they stick very close.
There are also two others call'd _Occipital_, which have their Beginning in
the same place with the preceeding, but they descend backward, and cleave
to the Skin of the hinder part of the Head, which they draw upward.
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