3245. From this experience I was now able to gather that this was a human kind, but without knowing to what province in the body they related. For this reason spirits of that earth came within me, either these or others, and thereby I was enabled to realize that they related to the scutiform or xiphoid* cartilage, in which the ribs terminate in front, and which is the fulcrum of the diaphragm muscles at the front side, and therefore also of the abdominal muscles. See whether or not the linea alba crosses over to that cartilage and from there continues downward, so that it would be the common fulcrum, together with the linea alba, of the abdominal muscles. 1748, 22 Sept. * = "shield-shaped or sword-shaped."