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Of Anatomy hQ fays, That the Ancients Skill in ie 
reached only to thofe Parts that are difcoverable by the 
naked Eye, and even there not fo far as the Moderns 
have carry'd it in any one Particular: That the Extent 
of the Ancients Knowledge in that matter may be cer- 
tainly known from the Anatomical Difcourfes of Gakn: 
That if we defcend to Particulars^ the Anatomy of the 
Brain was not known to any tolerable degree before 
Malpighius and Willis : That the Ancients knew little of 
the Texture of the Eye, in comffarifon of whit may be 
found in the Writings of Dr. Briggs : That the Glands 
which fupply it with moiftiire, are by no body fo well 
defcribed as by Monfieur Nuck : That tiie Ear, with its 
inner Cavities, was little knovvn before Monfieur Du 
Ferney : That the knowledge of the Texture of ?he 
irongue is owing to Malpighius ; of the Glands of toe 
^outh, Jaws, and Neck, to Wharton^ Stem, md thck; 
'mis^ ^ tht to Malpighius : That the Prigiary 
"Kll- of the Lungs was wholly unknown to the Ancients, 
wlio had no Notion of the Circulation of the Blood j 
fice all that can be coliefted from the Writings of 
crates^ Plato, mi Arifhtle^ is, that the Blood had a 
^^onftant recurrent Motion through the, Body, . which 
¥}iey could not diftin£l!y defcribe : That this Motion 
k'hrough the Veins to the right Ventricle of the Heart, 
%'ence through the Lungs into the left, and fo through 
the Arteries over the whole Body til! it; meets igain 
wirh/the Veins, firft called by Ccefalpinus th^Citcuh- 
tion of the Blood, was firft difco\^ered by Servetus ^ 
then purfaed fomewhat further by Columku and Q^efaU 
pmiiSy and at kit rriade perfectly Intelligible by Dr. Mar^ 
vey, whofe Difcoveries were lately made compleat by 
Monf. Leuivenhoek : That the Texture of the Heart was 
firft ditcovered by Dr. Lower ^ of the Coats of tlie Sto- 
mack by Dr. Willis, of the Fibres of the Inteftines by 
DcXole, of the ChyUferous Veflels by AfelJius and 
S f i Pecpet^ 
