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| | Digital Clendening: Rare Text Images: Human Body: Bauhin, 1605 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | "Bauhin's greatest contribution to anatomy was the reform he introduced into the nomenclature, particularly into that of muscles. |
 | | Because it is very easy to make mistakes in the enumeration of muscles if they are merely called first, second, etc.; and because different anatomists had named different muscles in this way, not agreeing on the order of the enumeration, Bauhin decided that it was better to use another kind of terminology. |
 | | He therefore named some muscles according to their substance (semimembranosus), others according to their shape (deltoid, scalene), some according to their origin (arytenoideus), and others according to their origin and insertion (styloglossus, crycothyroidus). |
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