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 him how the Bones, Muscles, Blood-Vessels, Cartilages, Tendons, Ligaments and Membranes lie in the Limbs and more conspicuous Parts of the Body, so far the Ancients went: And here, there is very little that the Moderns have any Right to pretend to as their own Discoveries; though any Man, that understands these things, must own, That these are the first things which offer themselves to an Anatomist's View.

Here I shall beg Leave to descend to Particulars, because I have not seen any Comparison made between Ancient and Modern Anatomy, wherein I could acquiesce; whilst some, as Mr. Glanvile (t), and some others who seem to have copied from him, have allowed the Ancients less than was their Due; others, as Vander Linden and Almeloveen (u), have attributed more to them than came to their Share; especially since (though perhaps it may be a little tedious, yet) it cannot be called a Digression.

Hippocrates (w) took the Brain to be a Gland. His Opinion was nearer to the Truth than any of his Successors; but he seems to have thought it to be a similar Substance, which it evidently is not. And therefore, when several Parts of it were discovered not to be glandulous,