The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Ambroise Paré
Date:
1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HerûSyWho incited by an excellent and almoft divine underftand. ing firft taught and put in praâiie the Medicinal] vertues oiHerbs*, in which fenfe Omd brings him in Tpeaking thus ; Herbes are of mins invention-iand through all : The worldJ:bey metheffl Fhyfztian call. The originali of Phyfickarifi^ng from tliofe beginnings (hall al- .wayes be celcbrated^as celcftiall,and wasincreafed principally af¬ ter this manner. After Afollo^Mfculapim his fon inftruâ:ed by his father reduced this Art being as yet rude and vulgar into a little better and more exquifite form, for which caufc he was reputed worthy to be accounted as one of the Gods. At the fame* time ^oxxnhtà Chiron Qentanrey'^^no for that he excelled inknow- ledg of Plants,and taught Mfculapius Ças many report) their facul- piiaJ.7,c.2. ^ thought by Tliny and fome others to have been the inventor oiFhyÇick..Æfcnlapius had two fons, Podalirius- and Machaon^ who following their fathers fteps and ppfeffing Phy fiek,did prin¬ cipally bcautifie and pra^iie that part thereof which is called Chii> urgery, and for that caufe were accounted the Invcnters thereof. After thofc Jfclepiades left this Art much inlargcd as hereditary to his poftcrity j by whofe ftudy and diligence, that part of the Art was invented and annexed, which by a more curious skill fcarcK- cth and cureth thofcdifeafes which lye hid within the body. Hip^ pocrates the Coan the fon of Heraclidas^ born of the noble rape of Jfclepiades??nnce of the Phy fitians that were before him,perfeâ:ed Phy fick and reduced it into an Art and wrote divers Books thereof in Greek.G^/^/^ fucceeded him fix hundred years after, who was a man moft famous not only for his knowledgin Phyfick,but alfo in all other fciences,who faithfully interpreting every thing that was » obfeure and difficult in the writings of Hippocrates^ enlarged the fcience with many volumes. Thus therefore was the beginning, thus the incrcafc and pcrfeâing the Art of Phyfick,as much as can be hoped for from mans induftry. Although indeed we cannot dc-f ny but that Experience hath much profited this Art, as it hath and doth many o ther.For as men perceived that fome things were profitable,'fome unprofitable for thi« or that difeafe, they fet it down,and fo by diligent obfervation and marking of fingularities, they eftabliffied univerfall and certain precepts and fo brought it in to an Art. For fo we find it recorded in ancient Hiftories, before the invention of Phyfick, that the Babylonians and Afjyrians had a cuftom amongft them to lay their fickand difeafed perfons in the porches and entries of their houfes, or to carry them into the iftreets and market places, that fuch aspafled by and law them, might give them counfei to take thofc things to cure their difeafes, which they had formerly found profitable in themfelves or any o- thcr inthe like affc£i;s,neither might any palTe by a fick man in fi. lence )