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IN composing the Work, I have follow’d such Methods as seem’d to me the most conducive towards its Use and Design, and insisted only upon such Topicks, as can be most serviceable to the World, and absolutely necessary in the Practice of either of these Arts; without touching upon any of the pompous Superfluities, with which Physick, as well as other Professions, is now a-days over-run and embarrass’d: The one I apprehended to concern my Integrity, and the other only an empty Applause. But that you may be at no Loss in conceiving the Regularity of my Method, because of the variety of Subjects to be met with, I shall here delineate or draw out the Lines of the Work, and give you some distant Idea of it, if possible, by a general Hint upon every Part or Section of the Book, Viz.

IN the first Part, I have explain’d the History of the Formation and Animation of Man, together with the Maturation, Nutrition, and Position of the Infant in the Womb; to which I have subjoin’d the Anatomical Account of the Membranes and Waters, as well as of the After-Birth and Navel-String. I have likewise in this place previously set forth the Dignity and Excellency of Man, together with the Faculties of our Souls, and the Qualities of our Bodies; And, having initiated the whole with the Natural Proofs of a God, and a short Dissertation upon Nature, I hope none will take that amiss, because my Belief in the one, and the small Knowledge I have acquir’d of the other, are to be my Guide throughout the Course of my Life, as well as my Directory in the present Performance.