The anatomist's manual, or, A treatise on the manner of preparing all the parts of anatomy : followed by a complete description of these parts / by J.P. Maygrier ; translated from the 4th French edition by Gunning S. Bedford.

  • Maygrier, J. P. (Jacques Pierre), 1771-1835.
Date:
1832
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    their ears. However, this opinion, as singular as it may appear, is not as void of foundation as we may be induced to imagine. M. Cuvier very judiciously observes, that Acmeon might have been led into error by the commu- nication of the eustachian tube in the pharynx ; in ad- mitting, it is true, the possibility of the external air passing through the different parts of the internal ear. Empedocles and Anaxagoras followed him ; but we have no accounts of them. Democritus next succeeded : an extremely retired life, and a profound study of the various branches of natural science, obtained for him such celebrity, that his cotemporaries, astounded at his extensive learning, and supposing him to be mad, con- sulted Hippocrates, who replied : He whom you believe to be mad is the ivisest of you all. .Aristotle, who lived about this period, was much occu- pied with the study of animals ; but his investigations, directed chiefly to natural history, did not tend to the advancement of human anatomy, properly so called. It is to Diodes that are due the first notions on the art of dissecting animals, although the works of this physician, who is believed to have been cotemporary with Plato, have not reached us. Such are the men who have fixed, as it were, the origin of anatomy. But as it is important that we should be acquainted with its progress, I shall now present a table by which its different advances may be ascertained. In order to render this exposition more perspicuous, and establish a certain order, I shall assign to anatomy four memorable epochs; during which, cul- tivated with great ardor and success, its progress has been unequivocal. 3d, Progress. First Epoch.—This refers to the age of Erasistratus and Herophylus. These two celebrated physicians, co- temporaries of Hippocrates, but whom certain writers state were born a long time after the father of medicine,