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tomies ; 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 mechanic of the part, which cannot be removed by 

 medicine alterative, but must be accommodate and palliate 

 by diets and medicines familiar. And for the passages 

 and pores, it is true which was anciently noted, that the 

 more subtle 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 re- 

 proved ; 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 might 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 purgaments ; whereas it is most neces- 

 sary to observe what cavities, nests, and receptacles the 

 humours do find in the parts, with the differing kind of 

 the humour so lodged and received. And as for the foot- 

 steps of diseases, and their devastations of the inward 

 parts, imposthumations, exulcerations, discontinuations, 

 putrefactions, consumptions, contractions, extensions, con- 

 vulsions, dislocations, obstructions, repletions, together 

 with all preternatural substances, as stones, carnosities, 

 excrescences, worms, and the like ; they ought to have 

 been exactly observed by multitude of anatomies and the 

 contribution of men's several experiences, and carefully set 

 down both historically according to the appearances, and 

 artificially with a reference to the diseases and symptoms 

 which resulted from them, in case where the anatomy is of 

 a defunct patient ; whereas now upon opening of bodies 

 they are passed over slightly and in silence. 



