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fubjeft, together with the C</;//f/5 Symptomcs^ znd Cttret thereof In 

 this fecond Duty of Medicine, many things are deficient, of thcle wc 

 will propound a few, which are more remarkable, which to enume- 

 rate without precipe order or Method, we fuppofe fufficient. 



§ The jirjlis the difcoKtinuancc^ of that profitable and accurate dili- * 

 ^cuce of H/ppocrates^ whofc cuftom was to fet down a W^rr.z/yz;t' of ^'-R-RA- 

 thefpecial cafes of his Patients, what the Medicament, what the event. ^j'°[^ic^ 

 Therefore having (b proper and notable a precedent from himjWho was males. 

 accounted theFather of the Art, we fhall not need to alleage any ex- 

 ample forreign, fetcht from other Arts ^ as from the wifdom of the 

 Lawyers, with whom nothing is more ufual, than to fct down and en- 

 ter more notable cafes, and new dicifions, whereby they may the bet- 

 ter furnini and direft themfelvcs for the definition of future cafes. 

 wherefore I find this continuation of Medicinal Reports dcfilient^ fpeci- 

 ally digefted into one entire body , with diligence and judgement , 

 which yet I underftand not to be made fo ample, as to extend to every 

 common cafe that daily falls out (for that were an infinite work, and to > 

 fmall purpofe) nor yet lb referved and contracted as to admit none, 

 but Prodigies and wonders, as many have done : for many things are 

 new in the nunner and circumftances of the thing, which are not new 

 in the l^nd j and he that (hall give his mind to obferve, fhall find many 

 things even in matters vulgar worthy obfervation. 



§ So in Difquifitions Anatomical , the manner is , that thofe parts * 

 which pertain in general to Mans body, are moft diligently enquired amato- 

 and obferved even to a curiofity, and that in every leafl filet ; but as ^^'^ . 

 touching the variety vohich is found in divers bodies, there the diligence of raja. 

 Thyficjans fails. And therefore I grant that fimph Anatomy hath been 

 moft clearly handled 5 Comparative Anafomy , 1 define to be deficient. 

 For men have made a good enquiry into all the parts, and into their 

 confiftencies, figures, and collocations; but the divers figure, conditi- 

 on, and poflurc of thofe parts in divers men, they have not lb well ob- 

 ferved. The reafbn of this omifSon I fuppofe is no other than this, 

 that the firft inquiry may be fatisfied in the view of one or two Anato- 

 mies^ but the latter, being Comparative ^ndCz^yisA , mufl arife from 

 the attentive and exad obfervation of many Diffe&ions : and the firll 

 is a matter, wherein learned Profefibrsin their Ledtures, and the prefs 

 of fpeftators ftanding about them, may vaunt themfelves; but the fe- 

 cond kind of Anatomy, u a fevere knowledge, which mufl be acquired 

 by a retired fpeculation, and a long experience. Neverthelels, there 

 is no doubt but that the Figure and Strufture of the inward parts is ve- 

 ry little inferiour, for variety and lineaments, to the outward members, 

 and that Hearts and Livers, and Ventricles are as different in men, as are 

 either their Foreheads, or Nofes, or Ears. 



(j And in thefe differences of inrvard parts, there are often found the 

 Caufcs continent of manv Difeafes 5 which Phyficians not obferving, 

 dofometime accufe the Humours which are not delinquent, the fault 

 being in the very Mechanick Frame of fome part. In the cure of which 

 Difeafes, to apply Alterative Medicines, is to no purpofe (bccaufe the 

 part peccant is incapable of fuch alteration,) but the matter mufV be 

 mended, and accommodated, or palliated by a prefcript Diet and 

 familiar Medicines. ^oXxWQVi'xf'Z 10 Comparative //wd/t?wj appertain ac- 



Q_ 2 curate 



