Huge, hissing hot, and hard as granite.[120]
Now, with harsh amputating saw,
Slash frontal os from under jaw;
And make a wound, by cutting slant down,
For doctor Tasker to descant on.[121]
Attack Medulla, hight Spinalis,
From where the head to where the tail is;[122]
Till every bone displays a fracture
Of scientific manufacture.
Thus Virgil tells of sturdy fellows,