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Excerpt from A Compendious System of Anatomy: In Six Parts; I. Osteology; II. Of the Muscles, &C.; III. Of the Abdomen; IV. Of the Thorax; V. Of the Brain and Nerves; Vi. Of the Senses
Thus the art must have been circumstanced in its beginning. We shall next see from the testimony of historians and other writers, how it actually appeared as an art, from the time that writing was introduced among men; how it was improved and conveyed down to us through a long series of ages.
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