A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...

O Most Good and Glorious Agent, Who shall Declare thy wondrous Works, that hath made all things in elegant Order, due Number, Weight and Measure; And hast framed the Midriffe as a moving Floor, enlarging and contracting the Breast,

and the Mediastine (as a Partition-Wall, dividing the middle from the lowest Apartiment) And the Pleura, composed of many small Threads, curiously interwoven, and close struck, as a fine Hang∣ing, encircling the beautiful Furniture of the Heart and Lungs, to secure their tender Compage in motion, against the bony arches of the Ribs, guarding them against the violent assaults of outward accidents.

Thou hast Treated the Fountain of Life, streaming in Purple and Scarlet Rivulets of Blood, through the various channels of Veins and Arteries, as so many Inlets and Outlets of the Heart, outwardly enamelled with variety of Vessels; And hast laid its se∣cret Chambers (in the Waters) carved with divers fleshy sub∣stances, beset with many cords of Sinews (as so many instruments of Motion) and hast watred its Furrows with the streams of Life.

Thou hast formed the Lungs as a rare Systeme of Membranous Pipes and Bladders of Air, to fann and exalt the vital Liquor with its cool and nitrous Particles; and hast made the rough Artery (head∣ed with an admirable frame of Membranes, Muscles, and Grisles) as an Organ-pipe of Breath, modelling the Voice with different Ar∣ticulations, to treat our friends in an amicable Converse; And to Speak and Sing the Great Praises of the All Wise Protoplast.

Thou that art the Light of our Eies, the Joy of our Hearts, the breath of our Nostrils, and the Essential Life, breathing into us the Spirit of Life; Inspire us with thy Holy Spirit, and quicken our Souls here in the shades of death, with the Light of thy Countenance; that in thy Light we may see Light, that by thy Grace we may par∣ticipate the Glory of Everlasting Life, through Jesus Christ the Fountain of Life, and the Lord of Glory.