1802PaleyW

Fragment from the book Paley W. Natural Theology (1802). An example of mention of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) in theological literature.

Quote pp. 393-394

There is no subject in which the tendency to dwell upon select or single topics is so usual, because there is no subject, of which, in its full extent, the latitude is so great, as that of natural history applied to the proof of an intelligent Creator. For my part, I take my stand in human anatomy: and the examples of mechanism I should be apt to draw out from the copious catalogue which it supplies, are the pivot upon which the head turns, the ligament within the socket of the hip joint, the pulley or trochlear muscle of the eye, the epiglottis, the bandages which tie down the tendons of the wrist and instep, the slit or perforated muscles at the hands and feet, the knitting of the intestines to the mesentery, the course of the chyle into the blood, and the constitution of the sexes as extended throughout the whole of the animal creation. To these instances, the reader's memory will go back, as they are severally set forth in their places: there is not one of the number which I do not think decisive; not one which is not strictly mechanical: nor have I read or heard of any solution of these appearances, which, in the smallest degree, shakes the conclusion that we build upon them.

External links

Paley W. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature. Philadelphia: Printed for John Morgan…, 1802. [archive.org]

Authors & Affiliations

William Paley (1743-1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher. [wikipedia.org]

Hall portrait of William Paley
Artist: William Beechey copy After George Romney.
Date: 1808/1809, original by Romney 1789-1791.
Source: wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, no changes).

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, anatomy, theology

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