The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
Date:
1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 rnc rvcduci. There are fomeCI know) will blame me for Englilhing this work, « laying open the mere are ^ u^^orthy view ot the vulgar. To Inch I could anlwer as rid. M « ”'£t diiro Akl^r: but for the prelent I will give them t heft, which I think may lio M. fadXinvbtrt the purpofely malicious : the firfl is drawn from the goodnelfe of the thing, as intendc^forthole that want fuch guides to direft is com- monlv cranted, that, Bonutn quo oomnuniustomclm. Secondly, it hath been the cuftome of nmft Writers in al Ages and Countries thus to do ; Hiffomter, Gakn , and the other Greeks! TÆ in their mother tongue the myfteries of their Art : thus did Celj,., yere« and others in Latin: Mefae, Jvkm, Serftfio, and others, inArabick , atal^fo, to go no further, our Author writ this work in his native Fronch, and learned men have done the iïkèln this and all other Arts. And it is a great hinderance to us in theft dayes, that we Mftbefmcedtolearntonnderftandtwoorthreetongues, before weeanlearn any fci- nce whererthc Ancients learned and taught theirs in their mother tongue ; fo that they fpent a great deal lelTe time about words, and more upon the ftudy of that Art or Science Aej intended to learn and follow. Thirdly,! mufttellyomthat. Ea: liir» nem» mufit SL No nun becomes aworkmanby book ; fo that unlefle they have had fomeinfight in the Art, and be in fomefort acquainted both with the tearros of Art ; as alfo with the knowledge and uftoftheinllruments thereto belonging, if by reading this, or any other book ofthc like naaurc they becomes Surgeons, I muftaeeds liken them (asG^/ew doth ^ Mtherfortofmen*) to Pilots by book only; to whoft care,I think none of us wou^ld commit his fafety at Sea, norany if wife, will commit thenifelycs to theft at land, or Sea natomv arc not the fame uled by my Author (whofe were according to thofe of but acc’Liding to thofe of Baaline, which Were ufed in the f indeed are the better and more compleat. Alfo pag. 5 *8. I thought it better to give the true figure of the Helmet floured Aconite, mentioned out ned nilureof which in our Author was enercafed with the forthcr haion of aKet. 1 have in fome few places in themargent, whiÿ you ftiall find^niarkcd with aftar, put (hort annotations, for the better illuftration of that which i* obfeure, &c. I have alfo in the Text to the fame purpofe, here and there git two or th w words, con¬ tained in thefe limits [ ], which I find here and there turned into a plam PareuthefiSjefpe- cially toward the lattcrind of the book, but the matter is not great. Further I muft tc- quaint you that the Apologie and Voiages, being the laft part of * âie Latin,but French editions,were tranflated into £Wij& out of Frencfe by George B<ef, a Surgeon of this City,fince that time, as Î hear,dead beyond the Seas. This is all. Courteous Reader, that I have thought nccelTary to acquaint thee withall concernin g this, which I Would defirc thee to wke with the fame mind that it is prefenacd to thee,by him that Wifheth thecali happpitieflè. TitOMAS JOHH8OH.' / ' 1