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CHAP. LXXXVI.
Of Anatomy.
HOwever it is excell'd by Anatomy in Cruelty, be∣ing the Slaughter-house of both Physicians and Chirurgeons, wherein they were formerly wont to cut up the bodies of condemned persons yet alive and brea∣thing, with most cruel Torments. At this day, out of reverence to Christian Religion, they are grown more milde, first suffering the body to die, then with their own hands, with all sorts of Cruelty, raging, and dis∣membring the dead Carcase, to observe the situation, order, weight, frame, nature, and all the secrets of the dead, thereby to understand how the better and more effectually to cure the living. A cruel kinde of dili∣gence, and a Spectacle no less horrid and abominable than impious!
Of Anatomy.
HOwever it is excell'd by Anatomy in Cruelty, be∣ing the Slaughter-house of both Physicians and Chirurgeons, wherein they were formerly wont to cut up the bodies of condemned persons yet alive and brea∣thing, with most cruel Torments. At this day, out of reverence to Christian Religion, they are grown more milde, first suffering the body to die, then with their own hands, with all sorts of Cruelty, raging, and dis∣membring the dead Carcase, to observe the situation, order, weight, frame, nature, and all the secrets of the dead, thereby to understand how the better and more effectually to cure the living. A cruel kinde of dili∣gence, and a Spectacle no less horrid and abominable than impious!