A treatise on biliary concretions: or, stones in the gall-bladder and ducts / By Thomas Coe.

  • Coe, Thomas, -1761.
Date:
1757
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Credit: A treatise on biliary concretions: or, stones in the gall-bladder and ducts / By Thomas Coe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % % Cl C ’ k ***» ,4 INTRODUCTION. \ • *• r ]r N order to cure difeafes, it is in the firft place neceffary to underftand them well; that is, to know in what refpefts the body that is difordered differs from the fame body in health. And this fuppofes a knowledge of the make and condition of the human body in a found ftate, and that not only of its external parts, but alfo of the fituation, ftrufture, and ufeof its feveral internal organs. Which knowledge is learned from anatomy, or the artificial defection of the human body. Anatomy therefore, and a due acquaint¬ ance with the animal (economy, are pre- vioufly neceflary to a right underftand- ing of phyfic ; and he that is ignorant of thefe muff be as much at a lofs, how to B judge