An anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body / By James Benignus Winslow ... Translated from the French original, by G. Douglas.

  • Jacob Benignus Winslow
Date:
1733
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Credit: An anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body / By James Benignus Winslow ... Translated from the French original, by G. Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Author’s Advertisement. IN room of a Preface which I once intended, the following Ad- vcrtifement will be Sufficient to inform my Readers, concerning the Defign and Difpofltion of this Treatife, and concerning fe- veral other particular Circumftances which it is proper they fhould be acquainted with, before they begin to perufe it. I intitle this Work, an Anatomical Expofition of the Structure of the Human Body, becaufe my Defign is limply to relate that Struc¬ ture, as I have found it by Diffedions often repeated, and in different Manners; and becaufe I confine my felf intire] y to the Human Body. I have not enlarged very much on the Ufes of the Parts; I men¬ tion thofe alone, which appear to me to be well founded on the known Strudure of the Body ; and fometimes I fay nothing of them at all, as knowing nothing certain about them. In that Cafe, I frankly acknowledge my Ignorance, in order to excite others who, perhaps, may be more lucky than I have been; and I defign in another Work, to give a fuller Account of thefe Ufes. I have followed the fame general Order which is obfer ved by Vefaltus in his great Work de Corporis Humani Fabric a ; beginning by the Bones, and from thence going on to the Mufcles, Arteries, Veins, Nerves, Abdomen,, Thorax, and Head, together with the Organs of Senfation; and I more willingly pitched upon this Method, becaufe I formerly tlefigned to have publiffied a Vefalius Renovatus. I t is for this Reafon, that the particular Treatife, which I call a Compendious View, &c. Sed. 7. is placed where, in all appearance, it ought not to be 5 and that I have been obliged to make this Com¬ pendious View, partly a Recapitulation of the Sedions that go before it, and partly an Introdudion to thofe that come after. M y great Care has been to follow an eafy, fimple, and inftrudive Method, for the fake of Beginners, and of thofe who have not made any great progrefs in Anatomy. 1 never talk of Parts fuppoled to be unknown, while I delcribe the reft ; and I never begin the par¬ ticular Defcription of any Part, without giving firft of all a general Idea of it. Thus
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