[4]External oblique muscles.
[5]Internal oblique muscles.
[6]Transversus abdominis.
[7]Longanon is the medieval Latin term for rectum. In the text which follows it will be noted that Edwardes describes the intestines from below upwards.
[8]The hepatic flexure of the colon.
[9]The caecum was termed the monoculus by medieval anatomists. There is no mention of the appendix; this was first described in 1523 by Berengario da Carpi.
[10]The ileum.
[11]The curved surface.
[12]Galen maintained that the major veins had their origin in the liver.
[13]Multiple lobes to the liver was another teaching of Galen derived from comparative anatomy.