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Excerpt from Notes on the Bibliography of Three Sixteenth-Century English Books Connected With London Hospitals
Several deductions can be made from these facts. There is no doubt that Vicary compiled his treatise on anatomy and issued it with the full knowledge that it'was already out of date because he thought it would be useful to the students of the United Company of Barbers and Surgeons, which had been founded in I 540. There is little doubt that he pursued and perhaps originated the plan which Halle imitated. He borrowed a manuscript and copied it with such alterations as his limited knowledge of anatomv allowed. He did not know, or did not think it worth while to incorporate, the work of Vesalius or even of Geminus, who was one of his colleagues, as surgeon to King Edward the Sixth. Halle did his com pilation more thoroughly, for he compared several manuscripts; Vicary condensed and compiled from a single manuscript; Read merely copied his original without change. The surgeons at this time seemed to have been in the same frame of mind as the Oxford graduates in the early Tractarian days, when Pusey and Newman set their pupils to work to edit the Fathers of the Church. 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.
