The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden].

  • William Cheselden
Date:
1795
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Credit: The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL INTRODUCTION. Ids a received opinion, that an animal body is a compages of veilels, varioufly difpofed, ‘to form parts of different figures, for different ufes. The ancients fuppofed that the heart and brain - were firft formed, and that the other parts pro- ceeded from them, and that the membranes were derived from the dura mater, or pia mater of the brain. They diftinguifhed all the parts into {permatic and fanguineous ; the former of which they derived from the brain, and the latter from about the derivation of parts ; with many other things of the like nature, confequences of their — hypothefes. But the moderns, by the alti ance .
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