CHAP. I. 



Of the Circulation of the Bhod> and the fallopian 

 Tubes. 



HE medical art affords striking instances of the 

 injustice done to the ancients in endeavouring to de 

 prive them of the glory of having made the most im- 

 portant discoveries in it. I shall produce two or three 

 manifest proofs of this, and doubt not but the reader 

 vill perceive not only probable hints, but demonstra- 

 tive evidence, that the ancients dearly taught what we 

 ow dispute their having had any kt owLdge of. 



2. It is remarkable with rrgard to medicine, that 

 none of the sciences Footter arrived at perfection ; lor 

 in the space cf tvto thousand )e*r* ? elapsed since the 

 time of Hippocrates, there has scarcely been added a 

 new aphorism to those of that great n:aii. notvvith. 

 standing all the application of so manj ingenious men 

 as have situ:*; studied that science. 



3. I omit taking notice of some modern atthors, 

 who have endeavoured to prove that the circulation of 

 the blood was known to Solomon, that I inaj pass to 

 the more evident proofs of this discovery, wtiicti Hip- 

 pocrates furoiaher us with. After exan -ining, thoFC 

 passages no one will deny but this able physician 



what he expresses so cLarly. 



4 In truth, it is hard to coi ceive that he knew 

 of the circulation of the blood 9 whn we hear 



