8 A (Preliminary Dif :ourft » concerning Anatomy 
But that we may yet reap farther advantage from this 
difquifition, and render it ferviceahle for the Prolongati- 
on of Humane, as well as their own lives, I have added 
1 he Medical Account, which may contain as well the 
Difeafes they are moft obnoxious to, with the Hiftoryof 
Cures performed either by themfelves, or the afliftance 
of Others ; as alio the Copia of Medicines that may be 
thence obtained, for the enriching and inlarging Phar- 
macy. 
Phyfick, if we may believe the Antients, in its Infancy, 
took its Rile from Bruits ; they taught us the ufe of Cly- 
fters, Bleeding, Purging, Vomiting, the Sovereign vertues 
of Plants againft Poylons, Haemorrhagies, Wounds, Blind- 
nefs, andalmoft the whole flock of all Pandoras Evils. 
And certainly were we but diligent in obferving, our Rea- 
fon might here learn a great deal, which Provident Na- 
ture hath taught them by Inftinct to outdo us in. 
Experience tells us, feme Diftempers fbmetimes are 
more happily cured in them, than in Men. Phyfick at 
firft was but Empiricy ; fuccefs in one, encourag’d atry- 
al in another. I could therefore wifh we had an Hiftory 
of Cures performed on Brutes. The Antient Phyficians 
thought this ftudy not below them ; hence ’tis we have 
the Medicina Veterinaria , Mulo-Medicina , Hippiatria , 
'li&tomtptov, ’0^fioAipioy > Kvvomificiv, &c. By this we may not 
only preferve their Lives for our Profits or Pleafure ; but 
likewife be provided with further means of prolonging 
and lengthening our own. 
Likewife on thefe Subjects when difeafed, variety of 
Experiments may be tryed for the proof of the force of 
Medicines, for conquering the moft ftubborn diftempers ; 
the caufes of their ailements may be enquired into by 
Anatomy, and more daring attempts offered at, which at 
length by repeated fuccefs in them, may be effayed in 
Man. In fhort, there is no part of Phyfick but what may 
receive* Improvements from them, there being not that dif- 
ference between our Bodies and theirs, only our Intem- 
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