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IV. An Account of a Book; Bibliographic Anatomicc 
Specimen, five Catalogus omnium pene AuSlorum,qui 
cib HI? TO C%ATE ad HA%V E1UU 
?em Anatomicam ex profeffo Vel obiter fcriptis illu- 
flrarunt, See. Curd & Studio JACOBI 
DOUGLAS, M, D. %. Soc. S . in Colleg. 
Cbirurg. Londinenfi TrakH. Anatom. Londini 
1715. 
T H E Author of this Treatife, whofe admirable Skill 
in the Pra&ice of Diffe&ions, as well as in the 
Theory of the Structure of the Parts, leaves him not ma- 
ny Equals, in order to difeover what Improvements and 
Progreis Anatomy has met with, and with what Tnduftry 
the Study of it has been cultivated, has with much Ap- 
plication perufed a very great Number of Authors who 
have advanced the Science ; obferving therein who have 
the Honour of being the firft Difcoverers, and who have 
unjuftly arrogated to themfelves that Title, that each 
may receive a due Proportion of Praife according to his 
Merit. And in thisDecifton he has impartially weighed 
their Deferts, the better to lay before the Reader the In- 
creafe of thefe Studies, and to determine more exactly the 
Differences that havearifen about who are firft Inventors; 
which the Book, Chapter and Page where they are treated 
of will eafily manifeft. 
The Hiftory, Lives and Elogies aferib’d to Anatomiffs, 
which he has inferted either from their own Writings, or 
their Editors, or Commentators, will afford a great Va- 
riety of Pleafure, in which he has been particuiary care- 
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