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Warren, John. Lectures upon anatomy :.

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Volume containing lecture notes of Harvard Medical School Professor John Warren (1753-1815) beginning on 10 December 1783 for the first course in anatomy he taught. The lectures were delivered in Harvard Yard, probably in Holden Chapel. Warren offers an overview of the history of medicine and anatomy, in addition to lectures devoted to specific parts and functions of the human body, and discussion of dissection. Concerning autopsies, Warren tells his students, "At the first view of dissections, the stomach is apt to turn, but custom wears off such impressions. It is anatomy that directs the knife in the hand of a skilful surgeon, & shews him where he may perform any necessary operation with safety to the patient. It is this which enables the physician to form an accurate knowledge of diseases & open dead bodies with grace, to discover the cause or seat of the disease, & the alteration it may have made in the several parts." "Goldsmith's animated nature," in an unidentified hand appears on the final thirty-nine pages of the volume.

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Lectures of John Warren in 1783 only partly in his own handwriting

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Library of the Medical School

ACADEMIA HARVARDIANA IN NOV ANG CHRISTO ET ECCLESIAE

THE WARREN LIBRARY Dr. John Warren 1753-1815 Dr. John Collins Warren 1778-1856 Dr. Jonathan Mason Warren 1811-1867 Dr. John Collins Warren 1842-1927 Dr. John Warren 1874-1928

Harvard Medical Library The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine - Boston [?]ATEM PER MEDICINAM QUAERAMUS

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Lectures upon Anatomy: Lecture 1st. Dec 10th

Gentlemen, It is usual to introduce a Course of Lectures upon natomy by giving a comleat History of its Origin & Progress. I shall however content myself with a short Account of this Matter. The Term anatomy was first applied to Cutting only. It afterwards obtained a more extensive Signifcation and comprehended the Dissecting of animal Bodies in order to know their several parts: the Structure of those Parts, their Situation & Use. It seems reasonable to suppose that Mankind obtained at first the Knowledge of the Parts of the human Body & their Use from Observation only. But, as there was an evident Resemblance between the Bodies of Men, & those of other Animals, this Knowledge was enlarged by opening & Dissecting the Brutal Creation. The Priests & the Butchers, therefore, in the first Ages claimed the credit of best understanding this Science. The former opened & inspected the Bodies of Animals for the Purpose of Sacrifice to the divine Being. The latter for the support of Man. Anatomy, as well as was the Case with every other Branch of Physic does not appears not to have been reduced to a regular System, till the Days of Hippocrates, who was born in the Island of Coos about 450 years before the Christian Era. This great Man on Account of the Improvements he made in Physics

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