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of the Nature of Salts (objefted againft by the Oppo- 
nent) to be np ufelefi Study, inftancing how it ferves 
to difcover the Nature of the Blood. Coming to Treat 
of the Seminal Leaves, he lliews their ufe, then he an- 
fwers the Quotations out of Galen and others, againfl 
theft Curiofities he ihews him to be miftaken in bis 
Story of GnidiusitiQ Archited:, from the Authority of 
Stralo and Tliny^ wonders the Opponent fliould men- 
tion PaflTioo » or any Intemperance in the Moderns | 
profeffing that he cafi find little of that kind i-n their 
Works, which are wrote with the greateft Modefty, 
as he Inftances in Galileo , Redi^ Boyle, WiliiSy &c. 
nor are the Titles now beftowed on Learned Men, (b 
extravagant as thofe of the paft Age, in which the At- 
tribute of Dix'i/^i? was frequent, even to Poets, as to 
Petrarch, &c. He adds, that whatever the Opponent 
may fancy of the ihort Life of the Fame of new Dif- 
cover ies, fays, Anatomy had its Original from the Sa- 
crifices of the Jews and Gentiles, was Cultivated by Hip- 
pocrates and Democritus , augmented by Erafijiratus , 
but cbkily by Erophiliis y who difleded Condemned 
Perfons alive, which getting him the hatred of the Peo- 
ple, Dead as well as Living were Diffedions forbidden. 
It was at this time praftifed in ^gypt^ where Galen was 
Inftrufted therein; after that it was Received, tho'not 
Increafed, by the Arahians, was revived in Italy, in the 
13 th Age, by Mtindims, and advanced by Fefalius Co-- 
lumhus^ &c. till in this lad Age it is come to tha£ 
Height and Perfetftion we now admire | fo that as fince 
from the firft beginning it has never been wholly neg* 
leded, but ftill gone on locreafing 5 fo w^e have no rea- 
fon to apprehend it will by Euture Ages be fo flighted^ 
^s tote thrown by as a ufelefs Speculation, as the Op- 
ponent predicts ; whofe Difcourfe ending with Seneca's 
advice to Lucillm, againft ufelefs Learning, our Au- 
ther 
