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 June 13, 2024.
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Of the Crocodile.
PLutarch reports of the Crocodile (whose figure is here delineated) that being tamed,* 1.1 & taught by man, he doth not only hear mans voyce, and answers to his call, but suffers himself to be handled, and opening his throat, lets his teeth be scratched and wiped with a towel. How small a part of Physick is that, which beasts are taught by nature? Certainly nothing in comparison of Man, who by the study and practise of a few years, can learn at his fingers ends all the parts of Physick: and practise them not only for his own, but also for the common good of all men. But why cannot beasts attain unto the knowledg of Physick so well as men? I think, because so great Art as Physick is, cannot be attained unto, by the dull capacities of Beasts.
[illustration] crocodile
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* 1.2But for that I have written of the Religion of Elephants, if I must speak according to the truth of the matter, we cannot say, They worship God, or have any sense of the divine Majesty. For how can they have any knowledge of sublime things, or of God, seeing they wholly following their food, know not how to meditate on celestial things? Now for that they behold and turn them∣selves to the Moon by night, and to the Sun in the morning, they do not that as worshipping, or for that they conceive any excellency or divinity in the Sun; but because Nature so requiring and leading them, they feel their bodies to rejoyce in that light, and their entrails and humors to move and stir them to it. Therefore, when we attributed Religion to Elephants, we said it ra∣ther popularly, than truly, and more that we might exhort men to the worship of God, than that we thought Elephants had any knowledg of divine worship implanted in their minds.