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much trouble, he thought it better to exert his fmall 
Talent, jthan- that the Bdfamic Art, which bears fo conli- 
derable a-* Figure in Surgery , as well as other Sciences, 
fhould be neglcded and pafled by as a matter not worth 
raking notice of. A farther motive to his Undertaking 
was, that he hoped by fubmitting with the greatefl: mo- 
deftf and humiiity to the Learned W'orld, they would ex- 
( uie all faults., by reafon, it is not fo much to be found 
fank with, if in attempting to find out an unbeaten Path, 
Qoe often miftake ones way. 
, To'th'isend therefore he applys himfelf, by wayof Let- 
ter, three Perfons, who for their skill in Hiftory, An- 
tiquities and Languages ^ iheir knowledge of Books, Ma- 
nufcripts, or Things themfelves, as well as their Experi- 
ence and Praftice in Phjfick and Surgery^ evidently appear 
to be proper Judges of this matter. , 
'The firft Letter is addreffed t Bernard, Fy^^, 
Serjeant" Surgeon to her Majejly^ at that timeMafter of the 
Surgeons Company, arid one of the Surgeons of St Battho- 
Imevps Hofpitab , , ^ ^v, , 
In this ^.etter the Author (hews the Excellency of Surge- 
ry^ and that Anatomy and Umhatming are Branches thereof, 
and equally to beefteemy ^ the one informing us of the 
confVituent Pans of thfe Bt>dy, and the other pteftrving 
thcmfrefh in cu'' Sights and Memories : That Embalming 
is oo lefs ancient and noble than Surgery itCelf, whence 
he^ 'infcks the Authority and Re^fonablenefs of its Ufe 
That the Naturalijify the Phyfician, the Surgeon, and the 
Anatomifl reap great adv3ntages in tlie way of Knowledge, 
from the preftrvation of Animals and other Rarities. The 
J^Afuralijl makes ufc of it in coUefting and preferving 
a iiMberlefs variety of Things in the Animal and V'egera- 
bJ®iWi)rld. -The Phyjkiah, in preferving the Jicjicesof 
th^ Bod^ fr'0m Malignant arid Putrid Feavefs. It ti^^aches 
Surgeon\\\^ Aft of Bandage or Kouiing \ as alfo to 
kioaw what Remedies are proper againft Mortifications, &c. 
It 
