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Author:   Alastair Compston (Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.002kg
ISBN:  

9780198795391

ISBN 10:   0198795394
Pages:   824
Publication Date:   02 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: 'In the tents of the King as well as the Muses': the life and reputation of Thomas Willis 2: 'Setting down experiments of the sciences': printing and the works of Thomas Willis 3: 'To delineate with most skillful hands': illustration and the printed works of Thomas Willis 4: 'The mystery and school house of nature': bibliography and the works of Thomas Willis 5: 'Those first forgotten particles': Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae (1659 - 1687) 6: 'Addicted to the opening of heads': Cerebri anatome (1664 - 1683) 7: 'A certain physiologie and pathology of the brain and nervous stock': Pathologiæ cerebri (1667 - 1678) 8: 'An Iliad of evils in the head': Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae & hypochondriacae (1670 - 1678) 9: 'To understand all things but itself': De anima brutorum (1672 - 1674) 10: 'The happy curing of cephalick diseases': Pharmaceutice rationalis (1674 - 1679) 11: 'To be avoided as if they were sick': A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the plague (1691 - 1721) 12: 'The whole dowry of all nature': Opera omnia (1676 - 1720) 13: 'Satisfying a mind desirous of truth': Dr Willis's practice of physick (1679 - 1684) 14: 'Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre': The London practice of physick (1685 - 1695) 15: 'The hearths and altars for the vital fire': medical chemistry and disease 16: 'Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves': the brain and nervous stock 17: 'A great and difficult thing, and full of hazards': the discourse of the soul 18: 'To practice medicine with a safe conscience': rational therapeutics

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This book is a superb work of scholarship and allows the reader to marvel at Willis's early contributions to medicine. The biographical sections are detailed and informative, the bibliography of work is encyclopedic in scope, and the accompanying analysis provides an excellent commentary and analysis of Willis's achievements. The references are detailed in the accompanying footnotes and will allow future researchers more source material for reading. The author has produced an outstanding scholarly contribution to the medical history literature. * Dr. Arpan K. Banerjee, Hektoen International *

Author Information

Alastair Compston is professor emeritus of neurology in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was formerly president of the European Neurological Society and the Association of British Neurologists, and editor of Brain, a journal of neurology. His research on the clinical science of human demyelinating disease has been recognised by several international prizes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences; and is elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Germany and the National Academy of Medicine of the USA. He has been appointed Commander of the British Empire. He has a longstanding interest in antiquarian books. His main activity in retirement is writing on the history of medicine

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