Excerpt from The Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey: Translated Out of Latin and Compared With the French

Heror, who incited by an excellent and almol't divine underfiand ing firfi taught and pat in prafiife the Medicinall vertues of Herbs; in which fenfe Ovid brings him in f peahi H ether are of mine inwentionmnd The world, they methe firli Phyfiti The originall of Phyfick arifing from thofe beginnings (hall al wayet be celebrated, as celefiiall, and wasincreaf'ed principally af ter this manner. After apollo, efculapius his fon infiruaed by his father reduced thisart being as yet rude and vulgar into a little' better and more exquifiteform, for which caufe he wasreputed worthy to be accounted as one of the Gods. At the fame time flourilfhed Chiron the (entanre, who for that he excelled in k w ledg'of Plants, and taught Efiulapitu (as many report) their foenl ties, is thought by Pliny and fome others to havebeen'the'inventor of Phyfick. Efculapius had' two Ions, 'podalirim.and Machaon, who following their fathers Preps and profefiing Phyfiek, did prin cipally beautifie and prafiil'e that part thereofwahichis called Chit, urgery, and for that caufe were accounted theluventers ghoreof. After thofe djclepiades left this Art much inlarged as hereditary to his pofierity; by whofe Prudy anddipligence, that part of the that was invented and annexed which by'a' more curious skill ggitphr eth and cufeth thofe difeafeswhich lye'hid within the bod y, Hip, pocratee the C can the fon of Heraclidas, born of the noble firaeeuof Afclepiadessl'rince ofthe Phyfitians thatwere before him, perfgfled hhyfick and reduced it intb an Art and wrote diversbooks theiepf in greek.galen fucceededhim fix hundred years after, who wasa man molt famous not only for his knowledg ih'phyfichbugalfoin allotherfcienceswho faithfully interpreting every thing that was obfcure and difficult inithe writings of Hippocrates, enlarggd the fcience with many volumes. Thus. Therefore. Was the bggigning, thus the increafe'and perfebting the Art of can be hoped for from mans in dufiry.although indeedwe cannot dew ny but that Experience hath much profited thig Art, as it hath and doth many other.for as men perceived that fomefithing�qyere profitable, fome unprofitable for this or that difeafe, they, for it dow, n, and (0 by diligent obfervation and marking offingulariti'es, they efiablilhed univerfall and certain precepts and fobrought it in to an Art. For fo we find it recorded in ancient Hil'rories; before theinvention of Phy'fick, that the Babylonian: and Agyriane, had a cul'tom amongl't them to lay their fickand difeafed perfous in the porches and entries of their houfes, or to carry them into the fireets and market places, that foch as paffed by, and fa'wi' them, might give them counfel to take th ofe things to cure their difeafes, which they hadformerly found profi table in themfelves orajny o-k ther in the likeaffeasmeither might any. Paffeby. A fick man in fix.

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