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VI. An Account of a Book. entituled, Ofleogra.- 
phia, or, the Anatomy of the Bones, By Wil- 
liam Chefelden, Surgeon to her Majefty, 
F. B: S. Surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hofpital, 
and Member of the Bpyal Academy of Surgery 
at Paris. By John Belchier, Surgeon, F. G(. 5. 
F O R the Frontifpiece to the Book our Author has 
made choice of a Story very fuitabletoaWork 
of this Kind, which is a Defcription that Galen , in 
Lib. i. Cap. z. de Anatomicis Adminidrationibus , 
relates of a Robber that was killed on a Mountain by 
a Traveller, whom he attack’d, andwhofe Body no 
one cared to have buried, but were rather glad that 
fo wicked a Man fhould become a Prey to the Vul- 
tures. Two Days after Galen went to fee this Bo- 
dy, and found the Bones picked as clean as if pre- 
pared for the Inftrucfion of Students. 
This Opportunity he mentions as a Piece of good 
Fortune, becaufe, in thofe Days, it was very rare to 
meet with a Skeleton, by what he obferves to the 
young Phyficians in the fame Book, that he ufed to 
examine Bones which he found in Graves, and in 
the Ruins of Monuments ; and once he met with a 
Body, which, by the over-flowing of a River, was 
walh’d out of a Sepulchre that was flightly built on 
the Bank of the faid River ; the Flelh being deflroy’d, 
the Bones were left entire. 
He 
