Myographiae comparatae specimen: or, a comparative description of all the muscles in a man and in a quadruped. Shewing their discoverer, origin, progress, insertion, use, and difference. To which is added, an account of the muscles peculiar to a woman. With an etymological table, and several useful index's

DOUGLAS, James

Published by Printed by W. B. for G. Strachan, London, 1707

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xxxvi, 216, 16pp. Distinguished from other edition of the same year by 'G. Strachan' not 'George Strahan' in the imprint. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Early inked initials to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of anatomist and man-midwife James Douglas' (bap. 1675, d. 1742) popular dissecting guide; initially intended to be the commencement of a series of handbooks comparing the anatomy of dogs and humans that ultimately never came to fruition. The work was republished in 1760 and 1775 with a Latin translation (1729). 'As for the comparative part of this treatise, or the interlacing the descriptions of the human muscles with these of the canine, that needs no apology. The many useful discoveries known from the dissection of quadrupeds, the knowledge of the true structure of divers parts of the body, of the course of the blood and the chyle, and of the use and proper action of the parts, that are chiefly owing to this sort of dissection; these, I say, give a very warrantable plea for insisting upon it, tho' it may be censured by the vulgar.' ESTC N26181. Size: 12mo.

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• Title: Myographiae comparatae specimen: or, a comparative description of all the muscles in a man and in a quadruped. Shewing their discoverer, origin, progress, insertion, use, and difference. To which is added, an account of the muscles peculiar to a woman. With an etymological table, and several useful index's
• Publisher: Printed by W. B. for G. Strachan, London
• Publication Date: 1707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.