The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized wherein all parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly described, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by a Fellow of the College of Physicians, London.

TO THE READER.

IN relation to this Treatise I think my self obliged to account for two things; First, why I publish any thing of this nature; se∣condly, why in English.

As to the first; I must confess it was not any Ambition to become an Author that put me upon it; but another occasion. The Book∣seller for whom this is printed, (my particular Friend) thinking to make a new Impression of a Book intituled The Manual of the Anato∣my or Dissection of the Body of Man, writ∣ten by Dr. Alexander Read, a Fellow of the College of Physicians, London, desired me to peruse it, and if in any place I observed it erroneous, to alter it. Ʋnderstanding that the Book had been writ many years agoe, (that which was brought to me being the fifth Impression, and that printed in 55.) I was unwilling to meddle with it, suspecting that

there must needs be very considerable Errors in it, so many new things in Anatomy having been discovered since that time. However at his importunity I undertook it: and before I had lookt over a Sheet, I saw I was not deceived. For though I had resolved to give my self no further trouble than was necessary, yet I found that if I would mend all that was amiss, I must in effect write a new Book. Which I have really done, as any one will find that will take the pains to compare this with that writ by Dr. Read, for he will see very little of that retained except the method, which indeed is but little alter'd; for though it differ pretty much from the modern, yet I think 'tis every whit as convenient.

As to the second, Why I should write it in English; I have two things to alledge: First, The example of him that has gone before me, who was a person (as I am informed) eminent in his time. Secondly, to avoid the injury of a paltry Translator, if it should be well accepted. For we see there is no Man that publishes any thing in the Latin tongue, that is received with any applause, but presently some progging Book∣seller or other finds out an indigent Hackney scribler to render it into English. But with what dis-reputation and abuse to the worthy Au∣thors, every learned person cannot but observe. So that he that shall think to redeem the noble

faculty and art of Physick out of the hands of the Mechanical Quacking Tribe by publishing every thing in a language above their under∣standing, will not only fail of his end, but find himself abused and disgraced into the bargain.

And now as to the Work it self, the main de∣sign of it is to pleasure those that are entring upon the study of Physick; for herein they may see in short, what afterwards they shall find more largely treated of in other Authors. And per∣haps it may not be altogether unusefull even for such as have made some proficiency in that study; for it will serve at least as an Index to bring to their remembrance what they have read more fully elsewhere; and will save them the labour to make such a Compendium for their own use. There is little that is new in Anatomy, but the Reader will find a taste of it here. Which he will the rather expect to meet with, when he under∣stands that most of these following learned Ana∣tomists are in some measure Epitomiz'd in it.

Authors made use of in this Treatise.

• Adrian. Spigel. de humani Corporis fabrica.
• Isbrandi de Diemerbroeck Anatome Corporis humani.
• Thomae Bartholini Anatome.
• Dr. Willis de Cerebro.
• —de primis viis, and de respirationis orga∣nis, in the first and second part of his Phar∣maceutice Rationalis.
• ...

• Dr. Lower's Tractatus de Corde.
• Dr. Glisson's Tractatus de Ventriculo & Inte∣stinis.
• —Anatomia Hepatis.
• Dr. Charlton's Enquiries into Humane Nature in IV. Anatomick Prelections in the New Theatre of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
• Dr. Harvey's Exercitationes Anatomicae de Cordis motu & circulatione Sanguinis.
• —Exercitationes de Generatione Anima∣lium.
• Malpighius de Viscerum structura.
• —Exercitationes Epistolicae de Cerebro, Lingua, &c.
• Dr. Grew's Comparative Anatomy of Sto∣machs and Guts, subjoined to his Museum Regalis Societatis.
• Dr. Brigg's Ophthalmo graphia, sive Oculi ejúsque partium descriptio Anatomica.
• Regneri de Graef Opera omnia.
• Johannis Swammerdami Miraculum Naturae, sive Uteri Muliebris fabrica.
• Dr. Walter Needham's disquisitio Anatomica de Formato Foetu.
• Dr. Crone de ratione Motûs Musculorum.
• Dr. Wharton's Adenographia, sive Glandula∣rum totius Corporis descriptio.

With several others.