A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates.

  • Andrew Fyfe
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blood is the pabulum or food of the flefh ; and, for the purpofe of nourifhment, the body is laid out into canals, like thofe which are drawn through gardens, that the blood maybe conveyed, as from a fountain, to every part of the pervious body. Hippocrates was nearly contemporary with the great philoiophers of whom we have been fpeak- ing, about 400 years before the Chriftian sera. He is faid to have feparated the profeflion of philofophy and phyfic, and to have been the firft who applied to phyiic alone as the bufinefs of his life. He is likewife generally fuppofed to be the firft who wrote upon anatomy. We know of nothing that was written exprefsly upon the fubjed: before ; and the firft anatomical difTedtion which has been recorded, was made by his friend Democritus of Abdera. If, however, we read the works of Hippo- crates with impartiality, and apply his accounts of the parts to what we now know of the human body, we muft allow his defcriptions to be im- perfect, incorrect, fometimes extravagant, and often unintelligible, that of the bones only ex- cepted. He feems to have ftudied thefe with more fuccefs than the other parts, and tells us that he had an opportunity of feeing a human fkeleton. Horn Hippocrates to Galen, who flourifhed towards the end of the fecond century, in the decline of the Roman empire, that is, in the {pace
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