2dly, the minds of medical men having of late been laudably excited to inveſtigate the nature of cancer, in hopes of diſcovering ſomething ſerviceable in that dreadful diſeaſe. 1804, John Abernethy, Surgical Observations, Containing a Classification of Tumours, with Cases to Illustrate the History of Each Species;—an Account of Diseases Which Strikingly Resemble the Venereal Disease;—and Various Cases Illustrative of Different Surgical Subjects.:
And 2dly, ſince I myſelf have ſeen it, I have with no ſmall Probability been able to diſcover that the other Building in Pola [tho’ deſcribed as a Theatre, and accordingly delineated as ſuch by Serlio, and called ſo in the dark Ages, when ſuch Names were given at random] was in effect no Theatre at all, but a magnificent Palace. 1730, the Marquis Scipio Maffei, translated by Alexander Gordon, A Compleat History of the Ancient Amphitheatres. More peculiarly Regarding the Architecture of thoſe Buildings, and in Particular that of Verona., London: Harmen Noorthouck, Chap. XVI. This Treatiſe is here ended, by giving an Account of the Theatre of Pola, which till now has been taken for an Amphitheatre., page 398: