The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

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Title: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson
Author: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
Publication: London :: Printed by Th: Cotes and R. Young,; anno 1634.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Surgery -- Early works to 1800.; Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the Armes or weapons of brute beasts.

BRute beasts are naturally so furnished with armes, that they have no neede to get, make or borrow in any other place.

And some of them neverthelesse are so furnished with such armes that they capti∣vate those which hold them prisoners; an example of this is the Torpedo, which doth not onely hurt by touch, but also by the net being betweene, he breathes such a qua∣lity from him, as stupifies the hands of the Fishermen, so that they are forced to let goe their nets, and so let him goe; moreover if it touch a ship it makes it stay. Thevet writes, that the Persian bay towards Arabia nourishes a Fish equall in length and * 1.1

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thicknesse to a Carpe, on every side encompassed with sharpe and strong pricks, like our Porcupine, with which hee fights against all kinds of fish. If a man chance but to be lightly hurt either with these or his teeth, he will dye within 24. houres.

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Cosmog. Tom. 1. lib. 10. cap. 10.

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