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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 



Anatomia 



comparata P arts anc * 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 anatomia vivorum was by Celsus 

 justly reproved, yet in regard of the great use of this 

 observation, the inquiry needed not by him so slightly 



