The text of this _Introduction to Anatomy_ fills no more than fifteen small pages, and its very brevity must have made it virtually useless; even the author says that it ‘is indeed a slight work’. The plan of presentation is that which had been popularized by Mundinus and was required by the relative speeds with which the different parts of the body succumbed to putrefaction during the course of dissection. Thus Edwardes first describes the lower venter, that is, the abdomen, abdominal cavity, and pelvis, next the thorax, and finally the brain and nervous system. Within his very brief presentation no mention is made of the extremities while, relative to the limits of the discussion, a preponderance of attention has been devoted to what were considered the organs of nutrition and blood manufacture. The anatomical nomenclature is mildly astonishing, especially when one considers the time and place of composition. But if one considers that Edwardes was sufficiently learned in Greek to act as Reader in Greek at his college for a short period, it will not be too amazing to find him somewhat scornful of the terms employed by those he calls ‘Barbarians’, that is, the European school influenced by Moslem medical writers, chiefly through the _Canon_ of Avicenna, which employed an anatomical terminology drawn from Latin and from curious hybrid forms partly Latin, partly Greek, partly Arabic and in some parts from Hebrew. Edwardes, on the contrary, employs classical Greek terminology as, for example, omentum rather than the medieval _zirbus_ and mesenteric in preference to _meseraic_. In so far as his description extends, his nomenclature is as ‘modern’, if not more so, than that of some of the more learned anatomists on the Continent. Yet, while his vocabulary may be more modern his anatomy is not. Indeed, in the introduction he remarked, as has been mentioned, that in the future he hoped to write a more extensive work ‘to which my own opinion will be added’. By implication, then, in this first brief treatise he had drawn upon earlier authorities, and while we might expect that this student of Greek would turn to Galen and Hippocrates this is true only in part. The liver as he describes it is medieval, the three-chambered heart is Aristotelian, derived from those ‘Barbarians’ he scorned.