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continuance of medicinal history I find deficient; which 
I understand neither to be so infinite as to extend to 
every common case, nor so reserved as to admit 
none but wonders: for many things are new in the 
manner, which are not new in the kind; and if men 
will intend to observe, they shall find much worthy to 
observe. 
5. In the inquiry which is made by anatomy, I find 
much deficience: for they inquire of the 
parts, and their substances, figures, and col- 
locations ; but they inquire not of the diver- 
sities of the parts, the secrecies of the passages, and the 
seats or nestling of the humours, nor much of the foot- 
steps and impressions of diseases. The reason of which 
omission I suppose to be, because the first inquiry may 
be satisfied in the view of one or a few anatomies: but 
the latter, being comparative and casual, must arise from 
the view of many. And as to the diversity of parts, there 
is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts 
is as full of difference as the outward, and in that is the 
cause continent of many diseases; which not being ob- 
served, they quarrel many times with the humours, which 
are not in fault; the fault being in the very frame and 
mechanique of the part, which cannot be removed by 
medicine alterative, but must be accommodate and pal- 
liate by diets and medicines familiar. And for the pas- 
sages and pores, it is true which was anciently noted, 
that the more subtile of them appear not in anatomies, 
because they are shut and latent in dead bodies, though 
they be open and manifest in live: which being supposed, 
though the inhumanity of axatomia vivorum was by Celsus 
justly reproved, yet in regard of the great use of this 
observation, the inquiry needed not by him so slightly 
Anatomia 
comparata, 
