The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
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The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
Author
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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London :: printed by E: C: and are to be sold by John Clarke at Mercers Chappell in Cheapeside neare ye great Conduit,
1665.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55895.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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descriptionPage 43
That men were taught by Beasts to polish and to whet their weapons, and to lye in ambu••h.
Souldiers are careful to keep their weapons from rust, and therefore they carry them to the Armorers to be polished. But in this care, many Beasts are nothing inferior unto them; for Boars whet their tusks against they fight. And the Elephant knowing that one of his teeth is dou∣bled with digging at the roots of trees to get meat, keepeth the other sharp, and touches nothing with it, preserving it for his combat with the RHINOCEROT his Enemy. But the craft of
[illustration] armored rhinoceros
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the Rhinocerot is very remarkable, that being in continual enmity with the Elephant, at the time when he prepares for the battail,* 1.1 he whets his horn against a Rock, as if it were with a Whetstone; nor (if he can chuse) will he strike any other part of the Elephant but the belly, because he knows that part of the Elephant is so tender, that it may be easily pierced. This Beast is in length equal to the Elephant, but in height he is inferior unto him, by reason of the shortness of his feet; he is of a palish yellow colour, and full of many spots.
Notes
* 1.1
The craft of the Rhinoce∣rot about to fight with the Elephant.