( Tio? ) 
It teaches both the Fhyfician and Sfirg^:a (by Anatomy) the 
fituatiou and parts of a Man's Body, and to prepare true 
and natural Schemes of the Veins, Arteries, Nerves, &c. 
Then he obferves, that without the Bdfamic Art Anatomy 
is deficient 5 inafmuch as it can neither fo particularly, nor 
frequently (how us, what in conjundion with it, may be, 
without any offence, contemplated at any time, and as ot- 
ten as we pleafe 5 fo that the prefent Age accounts the 
chief ufe of this Art to be in Anatomical Preparations, 
as alfo that the Knowledge of it may be neceffary in our 
Domeftic and Culinary Affairs 5 fuch as conferving all forts 
of Roots, Herbs and Fruits 5 preferving Wines, Frui'tSy 
Flefh, Fifh, &c. But the more antient, more general , 
and more proper ufe of Embalming lies in preferving a Hu- 
man Dead Body intire 3 more Ancient, as having been de- 
vifcd by the Wife and Learned Egyptians , and more gene- 
ral, in that it relates to every particular Perfon 5 which 
neverthelefs being looked upon as an unnecefiary expenfive 
trouble, was another reafon for hini to affert, that Em- 
halming was a particular part of that Duty, which obliges 
all Mankind to take care of their Dead* In order to this, 
he firft gives us fome cogent Reafons to prove the Right of 
Burial, what things are neceflary thereto, wliether Cere- 
monies are needlefs and Superftitious, or Monuments Vain- 
glorious, and this he lays down according as Nature 
didates, the Law of God appoints, and the Law ot Nations 
direfts and obliges. Then he fhews the w|n£ of Burial to 
be a Puniftiment and Curfe, and that even the particular 
Ceremonies of Funerals are not to be negleded ^ yet with- 
al cautions his Reader to avoid the miftake of thinking the 
want of it, or any particular Ceremony thereof, may be 
any ways prejudicial to a Chriltian Soul, or any occafion 
of the deficiency of the leaft part of the Body at the Re- 
*furre£l:ion, and only fliows the Infamy and Difgrace of a 
Body being denied Burial ^ and how far, wherefore and to 
what end the following cuftoms are to be made ufe of 5 
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