A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates.

  • Fyfe, Andrew, 1754-1824.
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: A compendious system of anatomy : in six parts ... ; illustrated with twelve large copperplates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ration, in opposition to book-learning; who boldly corrected fome of Galen's errors, and was perfuaded that many more might be detect- ed ; this man, we fay, never made or faw, or ieemed to think of a human direction. He dis- covered Galen's errors in the ofteology, by going to burying-grounds, with his ftudents and others, where he examined and demonftrated the bones ; he earneftly recommended that method of ftudy, in preference even to the reading of Galen, and thought that many further improvements might be made ; yet he feemed not to have an idea that a freili fubject might be diffected with that view. Perhaps the jewifh tenets, which the Maho- metans adopted, about uncleanlinefs and pollu- tion, might prevent their handling dead bodies ; or their opinion of what was fuppofed to pafs between an angel and the dead perfon, might make them think difturbing the dead highly fa- crilegious. Such, however, as Arabian learning was, for many ages together there was hardly any other in all the weftern countries of Europe. It was introduced by the eftablimment of the Saracens in Spain in 711, and kept its ground till the reftoration of learning in the end of the 15th century. The ftate of anatomy in Europe, in the times of Arabian influence, may be feen by reading a very fhort fyftem of anatomy drawn up by Mundinus, in the year 1315. It was ex- tracted principally from what the Arabians had preferved of Galen's doctrine ; and, rude as it is, in