The manuall of the anatomy or dissection of the body of man containing the enumeration, and description of the parts of the same, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises. Enlarged and more methodically digested into 6. books. By Alexander Read, Doctor of Physick, a fellow of the Physitians College of London, and a brother of the Worshipfull Company of the Barber-Chirurgeons.

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Author:	Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641.
Title:	The manuall of the anatomy or dissection of the body of man containing the enumeration, and description of the parts of the same, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises. Enlarged and more methodically digested into 6. books. By Alexander Read, Doctor of Physick, a fellow of the Physitians College of London, and a brother of the Worshipfull Company of the Barber-Chirurgeons.
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dedication

The Number and Contents of the Bookes.

THE FIRST Booke of the lower cavitie called Abdomen.

CAP. I. Of the division of the parts of the body of man in generall.

CAP. II. Of the circumscription, re∣gions, substance, and parts of the abdomen.

CAP. III. Of the common containing parts of the belly.

CAP. IV. Of the proper containing parts.

CAP. V. Of the Omentum.

CAP. VI. Of the Guia.

CAP. VII. Of the Ventriculus or stomacke.

CAP VIII. Of the Intestines or Guts.

CAP. IX. Of the Mesenterium.

CAP. X. Of the venae lacteae.

CAP. XI. Of the Pancreas.

CAP. XII. Of the Liver. Now follow the parts ap∣pointed for sanguification, whereof the Liver is the chiefest.

CAP. XIII. Of the vena portae.

CAP. XIV. Of the Vena cava, dispersed within the trūk of the body.

CAP. XV. Of the Gall.

CAP XVI. Of the Spleene.

CAP. XVII. Of the kidnies.

CAP. XVIII. Of the vreters.

CAP. XIX. Of the bladder.

CAP. XX. Of the generation of blood.

CAP. XXI. Of vasa praeparantia in Man.

CAP XXII. Of the stones.

CAP. XXIII. Of the vessels that carry the seed, and those that keepe it.

CAP. XXIV. Of the Yard.

Of the Genitals in Woman. CAP. XXV. Of the Cunnus.

CAP. XXVI. Of the Matrix.

CAP. XXVII. Of the stones and the semi∣nary vessels.

THE SECOND Book of the Brest.

CAP. I. Of the common containing parts of it.

CAP. II. Of the Dugs.

CAP. III. Of the proper internall containing parts.

CAP. IIII. Of the truncke ascending from the Vena cava.

CAP. V. Of Vena arterialis, and arteria venalis.

CAP. VI. Of the great artery, and first of the trunke ascen∣ding of the same.

CAP. VII. Of the descending trunke of the aorta.

CAP. VIII. Of the Heart.

CAP. IX. Of the Lungs, Wind-pipe, and Gullet.

CAP. X. Of the Wind-pipe.

CAP. XI. Of the gullet.

CAP. XII. Of the neck.

THE THIRD Book, of the upper∣most cavity of the body, the Head, Caput in Latine.

CAP. I. Of the Braine.

CAP. II. Of other parts to be seene in the Braine.

CAP III. Of the seven paires of sinewes.

CAP. IIII. A new way to find out the parts within the skull.

CAP. V. Of the face, and first of the parts containing of it.

CAP. VI. Of the outer parts of the eyes.

CAP. VII. Of the muscles of the eye.

CAP. VIII. Of the tunicles of the eye.

CAP. IX. Of the humours of the eye.

CAP. X. Of the eare, and first of the outward eare.

CAP. XI. Of the foure cavities of the eare.

CAP. XII. Of the Nose.

CAP. XIII. Of the Mouth.

The fourth Book. A description of the veins, arteries, and sinewes of the Lims.

CAP. I. Of the veins of the Arme.

CAP. II. Of the arteries of it.

CAP. III. Of the sinewes of the Arme.

CAP. IV. Of the veins of the Foot.

CAP. V. Of the arteries of the Foot.

CAP. VI. Of the Nerves of the Foot.

CAP. VII. Of the nerves of the spina∣lis medulla.

Booke V. Of the Bones.

CAP. I. Of the nature of a Bone.

CAP. II. An enumeration of the bones of mans body: and first of the bones of the Head.

Of the lower Iaw.

CAP. III. Of the Teeth.

CAP. IV. Of the bones of the trunke of the body.

CAP. V. Of the Cannell bone, and the shoulder blade.

CAP. VI. Of the bones of the Arme.

CAP. VII. Of the bones of the Legs.

Of the seed bones.

CAP. VIII. Of the sundry wayes by the which the bones of mans body are cou∣pled together.

CAP. IX. Of a Cartilage.

CAP. X. Of a Ligament.

An Explication of some termes which are found in Anatomicall authors in the do∣ctrine of bones.

As for the number of the bones of the body of Man.

The explication of the first Figure.

The explication of the second Figure.

The explication of the third Figure.

The explication of the fourth Figure.

The explication of the fift Figure.