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 May 14, 2024.
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Of the docility of Beasts, and first of the Dog.
BEasts are apt to learn those things which men desire, whereby they shew themselves not whol∣ly void of reason. For Dogs, Apes, and Horses, learn to creep through the Juglers hoops, and rise on their hinder-feet, as though they would dance. Plutarch tells that a Jugler had a Dog which would represent many things upon the Stage befitting the occasion and argument of the Play; amongst the rest, he exceeded all admiration in that, that taking a soporifick medicin, he excellently feigned himself dead; for first, as taken with a giddiness in his head he begun to tremble, then presently fell down, and lying on the ground, as it were contracted his dying members, and lastly, as if truly dead he wax'd stiff; and moreover suffered himself diversly to be fitted according to divers parts of the Theater, the fable so requiring, But when he, by those things that were were said and done, knew it was time to rise, he first begun to move his of
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legs by little and little, as if he had been wakened from a sound sleep; then presently with his head a little lifted up, he looked this way and that way, to the great admiration of all the behol∣ders; and finally rose up, and went familiarly and chearfully to him he should. Than which sight the Emperor Vespasian (who was then present in Marcellus his Theater) never saw any which more delighted him.