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a priscis) poros complures et meatus et pertusiones, quaa sunt 

 ex subtilioribus, in anatomicis dissectionibus non comparere; 

 quippe que in cadaveribus occluduntur et latent; cum in 

 viventibus dilatentur, et possent esse conspicui. 1 Itaque ut 

 et usui consulatur simul et humanitati, non est omnino rejici- 

 enda Anatomia Vivorum, neque ad fortuitas chirurgicorum 

 inspectiones (quod Celsus fecit) remittenda ; cum hoc ipsum 

 bene expediri possit per dissectionem brutorum vivorum quse, 

 non obstante suarum partium dissimilitudine ab humanis, huic 

 inquisitioni adhibito judicio satisfacere possint. 2 



Item in inquisitione illorum de Morbis, inveniunt morbos 

 complures quos insanaliles decernunt, alios jam inde a prin- 

 ciple morborum, alios post talem quampiam periodum. Ita 

 ut L. Syllae et Triumvirorum proscriptions res nihili fuerint 

 pras medicorum proscriptionibus, per quas tot homines iniquis- 

 simis edictis morti dedunt; quorum tamen plurimi minore 

 cum difficultate evadunt, quam illi olim inter proscriptiones 

 Romanas. Neque igitur dubitabo inter Desiderata reponere 

 opus aliquod de Curationibus Morborum qui habentur pro 

 Insanabilibus ; ut evocentur et excitentur medici aliqui egregii 

 et magnanimi, qui huic operi (quantum largitur natura rerum) 

 incumbant ; quando hoc ipsum, istos morbos pronunciare insa- 

 ndbiles, neglectum et incuriam veluti lege sanciat, et igno- 

 rantiam ab infamia eximat. 



Item, ut paulo ulterius insistam ; etiam plane censeo ad 

 officium medici pertinere, non tantum ut.sanitatem restituat, 

 verum etiam ut dolores et cruciatus morborum mitiget; 

 neque id ipsum solummodo cum ilia mitigatio doloris, 

 veluti symptomatis periculosi, ad convalescentiam faciat et 

 conducat ; imo vero cum, abjecta prorsus omni sanitatis spe, 

 excessum tantum praebeat e vita magis lenem et placidum. 

 Siquidem non parva est foelicitatis pars (quam sibi iantopere 



1 This difficulty is almost entirely removed by the perfection to which the art of 

 making anatomical preparations has been brought. Berengario of Carpi, who died at 

 Ferrara in 1550, is said to have been the first person who made use of injections in 

 order to render the vessels visible. He employed water (probably coloured) for this 

 purpose. Swammerdam was the first to inject with wax. In one branch of anatomy, 

 namely the doctrine of the development of the osseous parts, the use of madder in the 

 food of the living animal has led to very curious results. It stains the portions of bone 

 developed during its use of a bright red. Duhamel was the first to use this means of 

 studying the growth of bone. Flourens has also employed it. 



2 Even this in the extent to which it has been carried appears to stand much In 

 need of an apology ; and it is satisfactory to find that one of our best anatomists seems 

 to think so. I refer to Brodie's Physiological Enquiries. 



