John Bulwer, Pathomyotomia (1649)
Date
1649
Author
John
Bulwer
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Pathomyotomia Or A Dissection of the significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. Being an essay to a new Method of observing the most Important movings of the Muscles of the Head, as they are the neerest and Immediate Organs of the Voluntarie or Impetuous motions of the Mind. With the Proposall of a new Nomenclature of the Muscles
Publication place
London
Printer
W. W.
Publisher
Humphrey Moseley
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
medicine
Summary
The proposed new nomenclature appears throughout the book
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Vesalius speakes of a broad and fleshy Glandule, which seemes to him to be a certaine vice-Muscle to lift up the Eye-lid. But we will conclude with the generall opinion of the best Anatomists, that these motions of the Mind are signified by the operation of that Muscle of the Eye-lid, which is commonly called Rectus, or the straight Muscle, and from this office Apertor oculi, and Artollens palpebram, the Eye-opener, or the Gazer, placed in the upper region of the Orbit of the Eye, neare the Musculus Artollens or Lifter of the Eye, being like also in figure to it, proceeding from the same Principle as the rest which move the Eye, and inserted into the Cartilage of the upper Eye-lid, and by its fibres contracted inwards, draws the superior Eye-lid upwards, the lower of its own accord subsiding into its place, assisted, according to the intensnes of the Act, in these significations, by the Muscle of the Forehead. (pp. 157-58)
sample: Vesalius speakes of a broad and fleshy Glandule, which seemes to him to be a certaine vice-Muscle to lift up the Eye-lid. But we will conclude with the generall opinion of the best Anatomists, that these motions of the Mind are signified by the operation of that Muscle of the Eye-lid, which is commonly called Rectus, or the straight Muscle, and from this office Apertor oculi, and Artollens palpebram, the Eye-opener, or the Gazer, placed in the upper region of the Orbit of the Eye, neare the Musculus Artollens or Lifter of the Eye, being like also in figure to it, proceeding from the same Principle as the rest which move the Eye, and inserted into the Cartilage of the upper Eye-lid, and by its fibres contracted inwards, draws the superior Eye-lid upwards, the lower of its own accord subsiding into its place, assisted, according to the intensnes of the Act, in these significations, by the Muscle of the Forehead. (pp. 157-58)
Wing
B5468
Criticisms
Cleary, James W. "John Bulwer: Renaissance Communicationist." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 45.4 (1959 December): 391-98.
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Wollock, Jeffrey. "John Bulwer's (1606-1656) Place in the History of the Deaf." Historiographia Linguistica 23.1/2 (1996): 1-46. view record
Wollock, Jeffrey. "John Bulwer's (1606-1656) Place in the History of the Deaf." Historiographia Linguistica 23.1/2 (1996): 1-46. view record
