anatomiser

Updated: May 4, 2025

I, for my part, venerate the inventor of indexes; and I know not to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, who was the first great anatomiser of the human body, or to that unknown labourer in literature, who first laid open the nerves and arteries of a book. Watts advises the perusal of the prefaces and the index of a book, as they both give light on its contents.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

'And thou art the wise man of the world the student of the hearts of others the anatomiser of thine own? Hast thou not found out that, besides a craving stomach, man carries with him a corrupt heart? Many a man I have seen who, in his haste to fly from the fiends without him, has forgotten to close the door of his heart against worse fiends who were ready to harbour within him.

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face