A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand].

  • Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657
Date:
1671
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Credit: A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eac Mong all the Variety of Books rpherewith the world hath bin filed within this lafl Century^ thofe tending to Philofophy whether Moral on Natural deforce the greatef reputation 5 Dwinity conffingoj'too our ions controz^erfy^ andHiftory ftnjft up with too great Fartiality^ onely the affertors of Philofophy efpecially natural (nnder which head we properly enumerate Phyfic^with all its branches) inftead of dubious Obs and Sols ha^e illuf rated their portions with more lucid obfer^ations : Nor hath any one part either of Fbyfick^ or Chyrurgery bin handled with more exquifite Learning than this of Anatomy, and therein our Author hath not meanly merited whofe labors mah^ the following traB ftfciently famous ; having obtainedfo great reputation, that it hath often binKeprintedin moU European Languages, and received with the bighef applaufe of the Learned, and not without great reafon^fnee it is no fmall fiep to the knowledge of the temper of a Mans body, to kliow the exaB deliniaments thereof in an Anatomical way. And tis held as a Maxime,thata Phyfitian nmfl h^ow in what part of the body a dtfeafe lies., the quality thereof and what.relation it hath to any of the ref, before he can rightly apply a remedy. In this Book^you wilt find 2^ Brafs Cuts or Fables reprefenting the federal parts of the Body, each of which ha^e their refpeSii^e number at the uppermoft corner. Each particular figure alfo is numbred andthe number fet o^er head, and the federal parts of each Figure diftinguifhed by Letters of the Alphabet for the more ready finding. But beftdes this you will meet with other marks, as for example, Chap.8. pag-9i. line ZU Fhe wordCoronalls is markc edwith the letter * which direBs you to the end of the fame Chapter A a where