A short description of the human muscles, chiefly as they appear on dissection : together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / by John Innes.

  • Innes, John, 1739-1777.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A short description of the human muscles, chiefly as they appear on dissection : together with their several uses, and the synonyma of the best authors / by John Innes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Use. To bring the fcapula forwards and downwards, or to raife the ribs upwards. Serratus amicus, Albinus. Sen at us minor amicus, Douglas. 2. SERRATUS MAGNUS, Jri/es from the nine fuperior ribs, by an equal number of flefliy digitations, refembling the teeth of a faw. Infected, flefliy, into the whole bafe of the fcapula internally, between the infertion off the rhomboid and the origin of the fub-fca- pularis mufcles, being folded about the two angles of the fcapula. Ufe. To move the fcapula forwards; and,, when the fcapula is forcibly raifed, to draw, upwards the'ribs. Serratus major anticus, Douglas. CHAP. XXII. MUSCLES SITUATED BETWEEN THE RIBS, AND W1THI1 THE THORAX. T> ETWEEN the ribs, on each fide, there are eleven double rows of mufcles, which axe