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The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.

  • Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722.
Date:
1688
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Credit: The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO°OTHE SREADE RS F any be furprizd by. the Novelty of has ving a name (nbfcrib’d to the title of this Third Edition,which was conceal’d in the firtt, let hire know, that tis. done with no defign, ei ther to.zain reputation tothe Author by any fanfied worth in. the. Books or to procure any value for the,Book, by fignifying it to be the work of fuch. an Author; for he has neither the fondnels. to have fuch. an opinion of his Book, wor the vanity, to bave it of himfelf. But the, true reafon ts, the unfaithfulne ls of either. the Printer.or Bookfeher, who (. though injoin a fecrecy Jhaue made the Author's naine more generally known than himelf ; fo that ‘tis rather become a picce of modelty, to oma AE ana confefS what fomany know, than any Con- | W fidence, to publifh that which it-were-to-na purpofe any longer to diffemble, As to the Occafion of writing thisTreatifeé, that was intimated in the former Lupreffisn, Mh viz. the Bookfeller’s recommending tome the Ue perufal and. correttion. of Dr. Alexandét Read's Mazual of Anatomy ;in doing which, f found it neceffzry to blot out, alter,aad add, {0 many things that the Work became, by much, 3 more