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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- inquMtio 

 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 



