Volume 1

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

  • Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760.
Date:
M,DCC,LXXII [1772]
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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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    and lateral degrees to which the numbers in Lan- cifi’s explications correfpond. | I defign on tome other occafion to give the ob- fervations ] have made on what the modern ana- tomy has difcovered to be wanting in thefe ta- bles, which mutt however always continue to be admired by all true and Jearned anatomitts. The table B B alone was as great a mafterpiece at the time when it was done,ast the tables of the nerves, publithed by the late farnous M, Vieuflens, fall continue to be;. tor no per fon, can fay that he has hitherto gh any better or any fo good. I write in a clofe, concife ftyle ; but I have taken all imaginable pains to render i it clear and intelligible, and I have fhunned all obfcure and equivocal ex sreffions. I have endeavoured after fimplicity as well as brevity, and I have continu- ally had thefe two things in view in compofing this work. For as to brevity, I confidered that the ereateft number of thofe for whom I write, want only the effential and neceflary parts of this {cience; the reft ferving only to enhance the price of my | book, and fo to hinder them from buying it. I ftudied the, oie property of ftyle, fimplici- ty, on account of foreigners, whom I muft have obliged very much ek fhunning all fuch Galli- cifms as they mutt be apt to miftake; who are not perfectly acquainted with the genius of the French tongue. Thete reafons sell, I hope, ob- tain my pardon from thofe who avi a volumi- pous, more than a concife ity le, and from thofe alfa