The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Sidley professor of Natural philosophy in that famous university. Viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavours. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the bloud. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. The first part, though last published. With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and term of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates. Englished by S.P. Esq;

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  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Sidley professor of Natural philosophy in that famous university. Viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavours. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the bloud. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. The first part, though last published. With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and term of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates. Englished by S.P. Esq;
  • Medical-philosophical discourse of fermentation.; Five treatises.; Essay of the pathology of the brain and nervous stock.
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Imprint
London : printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, J. Leigh, and S. Martyn, and are to be sold at the corner of Chancery-lane, and the Flower-de-Luce over against St Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, M DC LXXXI. [1681]
Added name
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?, engraver.; Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?, tr.
Publication year
1681
ESTC No.
R42846
Grub Street ID
124020
Description
[12], 178, [4], 192, [4], 106, [30] p., [17] leaves of plates (some folded) : diagrams, port.
Note
Frontis. portrait of the author signed: D. Loggan, delin. et sculp

Epistle dedicatory signed by the translator, Samuel Pordage

"A medical-philosophical discourse of fermentation" has separate dated title page on leaf A1r

"Five treatises" has separate dated title page, pagination and register

"An essay of the pathology of the brain and nervous stock" has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed by J.B. for T. Dring", separate pagination and register

Includes index and glossary

Identified as Wing W2855 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 1137.