All the Principal VEINS, ARTERIES, and NERVES, both of the Limbs and Viscera. The generous Gift of John Evelyn Esquire. He bought them at Padoa, where he saw them with great industry and exactness (according to the best method then used) taken out of the body of a Man, and very curiously spread upon four large TABLES, whereon they are now preserved. The Work of Fabritius Bartoletus then Vestingius's Assistant there, and afterwards Physician to the King of Poland.

The Veins and Arteries are so exceedingly well done, as to shew the most curious Schemes which Laurentius and other Physitians have given us of them, are real and not fictitious. But the Nerves have been much more truly and fully represented to us of late by Dr. Richard Lower, in Dr. Willis. (d) De Nervorum Descript. & usu. (d) Especially as to their Plexus and Inosculations, and their admirable Distributions to the Organs of the Senses, and the Viscera.

Aristotle (e) Histor. Anim. lib. 3. c. 3. (e)by the account he gives of the Doctrine of the Naturalists of his Time, and before him, seems to have been the first, who to any purpose, observed the Distribution of the Sanguineous Vessels. Yet he describes them only chiefly from the Heart upward. Nor makes he any distinction betwixt the Vena Portæ, and the Vena Cava. So that even here he comes far short of that exactness which Anatomists have since arrived at; as appears, upon inspection, by the TABLES above mention'd.