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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34010	A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...	Collins, Samuel, 1619-1670.	1685 (1685)	Wing C5387; ESTC R32546	1,820,939	1,622

branches of Blood-vessels and more inwardly Embroidered it with various ranks of Muscular Fibres after the manner of Network as so many Organs to give motion life and refinement to the Blood the Fountain Life Thou hast formed the Lungs as an Organ of Respiration a Systeme of divers Pipes and Vessels of Air to improve the Blood by its Nitrous and Elastick Particles and to fan and refresh the Vital Flame by its cold Atomes Thou hast outwardly encircled the highest Apartiments with many common Integuments and chiefly with the Tables of the Skull as with Walls of Ivory and within with finer Membranes stretched out as Curtains and Vails to cover and overshade the bright intelligent Orb of the Brain a white pulpy substance consisting of many Processes beset with many streaks which are a Contexture of many Fibrils resembling rays of Light through which the Emanations of Animal Spirits are diffused In the lower Story of a Humane Body Thou turnest Aliment into Milk in the middle Milk into Blood in the highest its Cristalline part into Animal Liquor enobled by choice Spirits Grant O holy Jesus the Great Physician of Soul and Body that as our natural Life is preserved by these several changes so our spiritual may be raised up by more noble Transmutations that our Reason may be converted into Religion and our Nature into Grace in this World and our Grace into Glory in the World to come through the Lord of Life and Glory To whom with the Father and holy Ghost be all Praise Dominion Eucharist Adoration and Obedience now and for ever Amen To the Right HONOURABLE The Lord CHARLES CHEYNE Vicount of NEWHAVEN My LORD THE great Complaisance and endearing Civility with which your Lordship treateth those who have the Honor of your Acquaintance giveth me the Confidence and you the Trouble of this Paper speaking my Ambition to be farther known to your Lordship in presenting you with my most Humble Duty Place this Sheet before the Preface of the Tables and mean Sentiments which cannot Contribute any thing to the advancement of your great Knowledge All that I can pretend to in this Humble Address to your Lordship in reference to my Boldness is to receive a favourable Pardon as well as an Honourable Protection The intrinsick Honour of your great reality and most amicable Disposition render me highly a Votary to your Lordship for whom I have most Reverential and Affectionate Esteems and shall ever deem my Self very much Honoured to improve my utmost endeavours in your Service Your Lordship hath travail'd through many Countreys beyond the Seas and made many Observations upon the various Governments of several Republicks and Kingdoms and have not only studied Books but Men and have Learned the Virtues and not the Vices of other Nations giving a Lustre to your Honourable Personage and Fortune which you have made very Renowned in great Hospitality by Caressing your Friends with a Noble and Kind Entertainment the high Expresses of your most entire Love which you have much more enobled by your Piety to God in Obedience to his Holy Laws revealed in his Word and in Justice to your Neighbour in the strict observance of his Sanction and Golden Rule in the Gospel Whatsoever ye would that Men should do to you do you to them And in sobriety to your own Person in regulating your Appetites according to the more refined Dictates of rectified Reason And now I cannot conceal your other Moral Perfections as first your great Loyalty and Veneration of the KING our most Gracious Soveraign whom God long preserve with an high Reverence and Duty as Gods Vicegerent And your Lordship hath a high Value and Affection for the Ministers of the Gospel and their Sacred Office and chiefly for the Function of Bishops as Ecclesiastical Governors Instituted by the Holy Apostles that all things in the Church may be done Decently and in Order and to Reform the irregular Lives of unreasonable Men. And your Lordship is not only a Loyal Subject of His Majesty and true Son of the church but a faithful Friend too of which I have had very much experience who study all ways possible in all good Offices of Love and Kindness to promote the Interest and Happiness of your Acquaintance and have a due Resentment of any civilities paid to your Lordship who are very prone upon all occasions to speak your grateful Returns by way of Compensation I have reason to believe I have long presumed upon your Patience for which I humbly beg your Lordships Pardon in recounting your Perfections which I have performed in all sincerity out of a Principle of Justice without any Flattery in propounding you a great Exemplar for others to Love Admire and Imitate My Lord to your Goodness as great in Honour and to your Honour as great in Goodness are Humbly presented this Free-will Offering and the Author and no Votary Can do more then make his Heart an Oblation as Ambitious to bear the Name and Attribute of being My LORD Your Lordships most Obedient And Obliged Servant SAMUEL COLLINS THE PREFACE TO THE TABLES EXperimental Philosophy is highly advanced by the frequent Dissections of the Body of MAN and other Animals which I have performed with all Care and Fidelity that I might inspect the great Secrets of Nature and declare the Wondrous Works of the All-wise and Omnipotent Protoplast who hath made all things in Number Weight and Measure And I humbly conceive the great Use of Comparative Anatomy is to illustrate the Structure Actions and Uses of Man's Body which are sometimes more clear in that of other Animals than in ours as I have discovered in frequent Dissections to my great satisfaction pleasure and admiration Whereupon I procured my worthy Friend Mr. Faithorne an Excellent Artificer if not the Best in the World in this kind to Engrave the opened parts of the Body and Brain of Man and other Animals Designed from the Life Anatomy is well worthy our high Esteems and great Study speaking a great Accomplishment to Learned Persons of this Age as it is very much conducive to the knowledge of our Great and Glorious Maker and of our Selves and other Animals the wonderful Works of His Hands This Learned part of Philosophy declareth the infinite Attributes of the Almighty Creator who inhabiteth the Light of Light whom no Mortal Eye is able to see Face to Face and live Wherefore the All-wise Law-giver in compliance with our Capacity hath given us the Book of the Creatures wherein we may read His great Perfections imprinted in fair Letters His Omnipotent Power Incomprehensible Wisdom and infinite Goodness His first Attribute appears in creating the goodly Fabrick of the greater World containing variety of Excellent Creatures as so many Rays of His most bright Essence made by His Word out of Nothing And Man the Complement of the Creation and Epitome of the Creatures he created after his own Image in Original Righteousness and Dominion over the Creatures In this great