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 Remedies are, which are there described. So that whatsoever Enlargement is made, is a clear Addition; especially, since these Minerals and Metals were then as free and common as they are now. Besides, vast Numbers of Galenical Medicines, Chymically prepared, are less nauseous, and equally powerful; which is so great an Advantage to Physick, that it ought not to be over-looked.

Natomy is one of the most necessary Arts to open to us Natural Knowledge of any that was ever thought of. Its Usefulness to Physicians was very early seen; and the Greeks took great Pains to bring it to Perfection. Some of the first Dissectors (q) tried their Skill upon living Bodies of Men, as well as Brutes. This was so inhumane and barbarous a Custom, that it was soon left off: And it created such an Abhorrence in Mens Minds of the Art it self, that in Galen's Time even dead Bodies were seldom opened; and he was often ob-