A Sketch Early History of Practical Anatomy The Introductory Address to the Course of Lectures on Anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, Tuesday October (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Sketch Early History of Practical Anatomy: The Introductory Address to the Course of Lectures on Anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, Tuesday October Biographie Médicale par ordre chronologique, par MM. Bayle et Thillaye, Paris, 1855, tome i. P. 40. This charge of Tertullian is reason ably accounted for on the ground that such rumors would naturally attach themselves to the first dissectors of the human body. It is stated that Cocchi, in his De Usu Art. Anat Florence, 1736, has vindicated them from the charge. Surgeons, however, not infrequently have been allowed to test operations on criminals, who were pardoned if they survived. Galen thus Operated in cases of nerve-wounds, and Paré, Colot, and numerous other surgeons, in cases of lithotomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.