Excerpt from A Short Description of the Human Muscles, Chiefly as They Appear on Dissection: Together With Their Several Uses, and the Synonyma of the Best AuthorsThe defcribing of the mufcles according to their origin: and in/ertiom, prevents much circumlocution. This is the method purfued by Dr Douglas and, wherever his defcrip tions feemed tolerably accurate, they have been copied with little alteration. But Dr Douglas's book is peculiarly defective'with regard to the mufcles of the hack and neck in defcribing thefe, therefore, the method of Albinus has been nearly followed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.