Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas].

  • John Douglas
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1735
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Credit: Animadversions on a late pompous book, intituled, Osteographia; or, The anatomy of the bones by William Cheselden ... / [John Douglas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^dve I. How much this work would have coft, if, ac¬ cording to his fir ft defign*, he had gone through, in the fame pompous manner (/. every part being as big as the life, which would have come within a large folio leaf, and the Frontice-pieces, Head-pieces, and Tail-pieces, taken from the mufcleSjvifcera, &c. of other animals) with theMyo-logy, Entero-logy, Angeio-logy, Neuro-logy, Adeno-logyj&c. ? I gueft, not lefs than Fifty Guineas; and if fo, pray who would have bought it? j4. Very few, if any. Therefore he muft have given them away, as, he fays, he has done above twenty per Cent, of the real coft of the prefent work f. ^ure 2. When might we have expected this great work, in cafe he had gone on with that noble defign ? If we may judge of this by the time he was about the bones, we could not with any reafon have expected it in lefs than Half a Century: for he was feven years a finifhing them, after they were Nearly finifhed ; as appears by his propofals, dated January 9, 1726-7, and his preface :j: : yet it was not pub- liftied ’till March 1754. ^ ^U(zre How long muft this work have been begun, that was Seven Years a finiftiing, after being Nearly finilhed ? “ To the Reader.” Parag. i. lin. i. “ Every bone in the human body bc- ing here delineated, as large as the life.” Notwithftanding thisfolemn declaration at firft fetting ouf, yet I don’t'find he has fo much as mentioned, much lefs de- * Preface, par^ig. Jnji. “ J^hen I began this uork I in- “ tended a (whole fyflem of anatomy y adorned (with the compara- “ tivcy in three (uolumeSy &c,” f Pr E 6. V7;/j ‘uolume is made above t<wenty “ per Cent. ( (which I always intended) better than the fubfcription “ propofals ” 4 Preface, parag. 6. “ ^his volume being nearly fnijhed,, “ it (was offered by fubfeription {^(without foUcitations) at font “ (guineas.**
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