The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker].

  • Ambroise Paré
Date:
1634
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Credit: The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , 5G0 ] the A V T H O R S EPISTLE DEDICATORIE To Henry the third, the mod: Chriftian King of France and Poland, m as (^ 7noJl ChriJiUn Kjng ) fee the members of mans hod) by a friendly confent are al'^ayes bufted^ andjland ready to^erforme thoje fmeiionsfor which they are appoin^ ted by nature, for theprefer^ation of the whole ^ of^vhich they are parts : Jo it is convenient that we, ivhich are,as it tvere^(jtia:gtn of this earthly Common-lveale fl')Quld bedtlio gent m the following ofthat callinglahich (Jby Gods appoints ttumt) we have once taken upon us: and content with ourprefent ejiate, not caried away ivith rafmes and envy,dejire different and divers things ivhoreofiDe haVe no knowledge. He ivhich doth otherwife, perverts and defleswith hated confufon the order and beauty ^on ytfhich this Vnivers confftsM her fore when Icenftdered with 7ny felfe, that I was a member ofthis great Mundane body., and that net altogether unprof table,f endeavored earnejlly^ that all men f?ould be acquainted tt>ith my duty, and that it might he knoime ho^V much J could pro ft euery man. For God is my 'S/itnes, and all good men know f hat I have noV^ laboured ffty yeares with ad care andpaines in thfilluf ration and amplification ofChirurgery-^and that f haVe foccrtamlyiouched the marke ivhereat f aimed., that Mntiqmty may jeeme to haVe nothing wherehiit may exceed us ^ be fide the glory ofinVention^ nor poferity any thing left but a certainefmall hope to addefome things, as it is eafie to adde to former inventions. Jn performance whtreofij haVe beene Jo, prodigall of my felfe, my ivatchings, faculties andmeanes', that Ifparedneither time, laboii*', n%r coft, ^ Tt>herby f mightfatisfie and accornplifh my oWn d^ires,this niygreat workA^d the defires of the fludtous Neither may we doubt bufthei^udies would at the !en>^ th waxe coldffthey only furnifhed^Vith the Tl^eorkke and Precepts in Sebooks and that with mlich laboure,fhould fee no manuall operation, nor manifejl way of per-^ formingthe Arte For ivhich caufi J feekingthe praife and profit ofihe French Nji^i^^y^'^^nwith the hinder ante of my particular eflate, have endeavored to tU lujlrateand increafe Chyrurgerie hitherto obfeure either by the infelicity of the , A «■ former