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make ofe of thofe of Apes 5 not that he thinks them both alike, but the 

 moft like : and tells them, that it was worth their while on this account 

 to go to Alexandria, where the Phyficians taught their Scholars the Do- 

 ftrineof the Bones from the Infpedtion oi Httmane Scektons themfelves, 

 which he much prefers before Books. But tince in his time Humane Sce- 

 ktons were not to be had but at Alexandria^ for the fupplying this De- 

 fedt, they might obferve the Bones oi Apes 5 and after that, they might 

 read his Book De Ojjium Natura, and to do as he did, vifit the Sepulchres 

 and Graves, and to obferve there the Humane Bones themfelves : And 

 ht tells u&.o£ two Scektons he made ufe of 3 One that the River had 

 waftied out of a Tomb, where the Flefti was corrupted and wafhed a- 

 way, yet the Eones held together. The other was of a Thief that was 

 Executed, who was fo much hated, that none would bury him 5 but the 

 Birds pick'd off his Flelh, and left his Bones as a Scekton. But faith he, 



^lavwanv it^i^cv tUv c^mv dx^^^Qouc-, &C. i. e. If )0H cant happen to fee any 

 of thefe, dJjffcS an Ape, carefully ■vicrv each Bone , Sac. Then he advifes 

 what fort of Apes to make choice of,as moft refembling a Man : And con- 



cludeS,a7ra}'7a)V,cJ; i'(ptw,'iwv q/^mv '(cffla.vOYi^v.i ^^n rlw fvaiv 9ir '^^ di-Qpociru aro- 



puum dvaHofjkio i>^'iv, i. e. One ought to kpovp the Strudure of all the Bones 

 either in a Humane Body, or in an Apes ; 'tk heii in both 3 a;nd then to 

 go to the Anatomy of the Mufcles. 



What Galen advifed, no doubt he praftifed himfelf , and obferved 

 both. But Andreas Fefalius will not allow him this : For in his great 

 and excellent Book De Corporis Hnmani Fabricd,ht all along tell's us, that 

 Galen gives us rather the Anatomy of Apes than of a Man .• And in his 

 Epifola ad Joachimum Roeldnts de Radice Chyme, his chief Defign is to 

 prove, that Galen never diflefted a Humane Body : and that he is often 

 miftaken in the Hiftory of the Parts, as alfo in their IXks 3 and that his 

 Reafonings are frequently unconclulive. 



Upon the coming out oi Vefalim his firft Book, he was warmly op- 

 pofed by Jacobus Sylvius a Phyficianat Paris, who had formerly been Ve- 

 falius his Mafter in Anatomy 3 in a Treatife ftiled Depuljio Vefani cujufdam 

 Calumniarum inHippocratis d)" Gakni Rem Anatomicam. This was an- 

 fwered not long after by Renatm Henerus, who publifiied another Trea- 

 tife, vi%,. Adverfui Jacobi SylviJ Depulftonum Anatomicarum Calumnias prs 

 Andrea Vefalio Apologia. Sylvius afterwards procures a Difciple of his 

 to write againft Vefalius, who puts out, butunfuccefsfiilly , Apologia pre 

 Gakno contra Andream Vefalmm BruxeUenfem, Francifco Puteo. Medico Ver- 

 cellenfi Authore. A Scholar of Vefalius, Gabriel Cunaus, makes a Reply 

 to Putern in his Apologia Francifci Putei pro Galeno in Anatome exam^n^ 

 Upon Fep///;^ his leaving i^<?z;^e, a Difciple of his, Realdus Columbus^ 

 grew very famous for Anatomy^ but ungratefuf'toJiis Mafter, as Vefdim 



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