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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 

 P arts and fcheir ^bstances, figures, and 

 collocations ; but they inquire not of 

 the diversities of the parts, the secrecies of the passages, 

 and the seats or nestling of the humours, nor much of 

 the footsteps 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 observed, 

 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 

 passages 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 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 

 notwithstanding the dissimilitude of their parts may 

 sufficiently satisfy this inquiry. And for the humours, 

 they are commonly passed over in anatomies as purga- 

 ments ; 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 



