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to have been relinquished altogether, or referred to the 
casual practices of surgery; but mought have been well 
diverted upon the dissection of beasts alive, which not- 
withstanding the dissimilitude of their parts may suffi- 
ciently satisfy this inquiry. And for the humours, they 
are commonly passed over in anatomies as purgaments ; 
whereas it is most necessary to observe, what cavities, 
nests, and receptacles the humours do find in the parts, 
with the differing kind of the humour so lodged and 
received. And as for the footsteps of diseases, and their 
devastations of the inward parts, impostumations, exul- 
cerations, discontinuations, putrefactions, consumptions, 
contractions, extensions, convulsions, dislocations, ob- 
structions, repletions, together with all preternatural sub- 
stances, as stones, carnosities, excrescences, worms and 
the like; they ought to have been exactly observed by 
multitude of anatomies, and the contribution of men’s 
several experiences, and carefully set down both histo- 
rically according to the appearances, and artificially with 
a reference to the diseases and symptoms which resulted 
from them, in case where the anatomy is of a defunct 
patient; whereas now upon opening of bodies they are 
- passed over slightly and in silence. 
6. In the inquiry of diseases, they do abandon the 
cures of many, some as in their nature in- Inquisitio 
curable, and others as passed the period of ulterior de 
cure; so that Sylla and the Triumvirs never morbis in- 
proscribed so many men to die, as they do by sanabilibus. 
their ignorant edicts: whereof numbers do escape with 
less difficulty than they did in the Roman proscriptions. 
Therefore I will not doubt to note as a deficience, that 
they inquire not the perfect cures of many diseases, or 
extremities of diseases; but pronouncing them incurable 
