On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1795
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Credit: On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    t '-7 ] ■ It was lincerely hoped that fome profeflionat ana- tomlfts would have favoured the world with their would permit, laboured inceflantly to accomplifli this greatobje£^. Two volumes in quarto,, written in Latin, that its benefits may be more univcrfeil, are now ready for publication : in the anato- mical part of which are above 60 copper plates, with references, on an entire new plan, to facilitate the ftudy of anatomy, &c. This work, which has been executed at an immenfe expenfe for a private, individual, who has no other fortune than his pr-ofellion, it is hoped will, in fome meafure, diminifli the neceffity of pro- curing fo many bodies for diffedlion ; but yet, it is a ceitain faA, confirmed by experience, that real diifeftions are abfolutely nc- ceflary ; for a pupil will comprehend and retain more by his own practical infpe£tioa of even one or two bodies, than by attending letftures, or reading for years. Difleflion leaves an impreffion in the mind never to be effaced, and the plan of the books men- tioned, has been, as nearly as poffible, formed to refer to on all occafions, to remember what has been pra<Elically taught in the differing room. The general rules delivered for difle£i:ion in thefe works are as follows, by which the learned will perceive, that cleanlinefs and decency are its prominent features, not wan- ton barbarity, as perfons unacquainted with its rules may fu^eft, De generalibus quibufdam pr^ceptis in difTedionibus te- nendis. 1, Ad diffediones nemo, nili qui raedicinK aut chirurgia: fc dicavit, admittatur. a. Tempus adminiftrationibus anatomicis eligatwr hymens. 3. Cadaver autem primo ab omni impuritate mundandum eft. 4. Locus adminiftrationis frigidus fit. 5. Locus, in quo peragitur fedio luminofus fit. 6. Cadaver menfse verfatili imponatur; ut menfa clrcumaifla, ©mnibus omnia oftendi queant. 7. Manus in operando fiifpenfa teneatur. 8. Humiditates fpongia fapius exforbeantur. 9. Tandem finito labore diurno, cadaver ftudiofe coute- gendum. Sclola Medicina Univerfalis Nova, p. 2. fcnti-
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