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.
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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 April 30, 2024.
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Of Cranes.
CRanes when they are to take a long journey into some Countrey cross the Seas, put their company in so good order, that no Captain can put his Souldiers in better. For before they stir out of any place, they have (as it were) their Trumpets to call them together, and encourage them to fly. They come together, and then fly up on high, that they may see afar off, choosing a Captain whom they are to follow. They have their Serjeants to take care of their rancks, and keep their nightly watches by turns.Plutarch tells us, that the Crane, which is appointed to stand Sentinel for all the rest, holds a stone in her foot, to the end, that, if she chance to give way to nature and sleep, she may be waked by the noise of the falling stone. The leader, lifting up his head, and stretching out his long neck, looks about him far and wide, and gives warning to
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the rest, of any danger that may befall them. The strongest lead the way, that they may the bet∣ter with the flapping of their wings break the force of the air, and this they do by turns. And that they may the easilier prevail against the force and opposition of the winds, they dispose their company into a wedg in the form of the Greek letter 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or a triangle; and being skilful in the Stars, they fore-see when tempests are coming, and fly down to the ground to keep themselves from the injury of the approaching storm.