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Excerpt from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints: Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body If an anato'mift fhall fet up a fkeleton, and draw it' in poi-1 tures refembling thofe of life; if he {hall diffect the human bo gdy, fludying and drawing it in parts; if he fhall continue draw, ing mufcle after mufcle, and one part after another, till he have gone through the whole; if he {hall proceed then to take thefe draw ings and notes of individual ptrts, and-lay them over his firfl: drawings of the bones if he fhall try to match the parts belong ing to fifty individual bodies of different fizes, of various forms, dying, fome fuddenly, and others flowly, fome full and mufcular. 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.