@article{492689,
      recid = {492689},
      author = {Browne, John,},
      title = {Myographia nova or, a graphical description of all the  muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection:  distributed into six lectures. At the Entrance into which,  Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging to each  Lecture, now in General Use at the Theatre in  Chirurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with two and  forty copper-plates accurately Engraven after the Life, not  only with their Names, but their Uses, fairly delineated on  each Plate, as much as can be exprest by Figures; with an  Explanation of their Names throughout the whole Discourse:  As also their Originations, Insertions, and Uses, at large,  in their proper Descriptions, and various useful  Annotations, and curious Observations both of the Author's,  and other Modern Anatomists. Together with a Phoilosophical  and Mathematical Account of the mechanism of muscular  motion, and an Accurate and Concise discourse of the heart  and its Use, with the circulation of the blood, etc. and  with a compleat Account of the Arteries and Veins, as to  their outward Coats, proving them to be made with Circular  Fleshy Fibres, by whose Contractions their Trunks become  Narrowed, and the Fluid Particles of the Blood are sent  forwards into all the Parts of the Body. Digested into this  New Method, by the Care and Study of John Browne, Sworn  Chirurgeon in Ordinary to the King's Most Excellent  Majesty, and late Senior Chirurgeon of St. Thomas's  Hospital, Southwark. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, at the Rose-Tree in  Little-Britain,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[8],viii,[24],x,9-186p.,plates :},
      year = {1705},
      note = {First published in 1681 under title "A compleat treatise  of the muscles". The description of the muscles is based on  William Mollins' Myskotomia, and the plates partly on  Guilio Casserio's Tabula anatomicae.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/492689},
}