Willis, Thomas (1621-1675) Pharmaceutice Rationalis: or an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies.

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Willis, Thomas (1621-1675) Pharmaceutice Rationalis: or an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies. London: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh, and are to be Sold at the Corner of Chancery-Lane, and the Flower-de-Luce over against St. Dunstan's in Fleet-street, 1684. Folio, illustrated with fourteen engraved plates, bound in full modern calf, contents good, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.

"The leading English exponent of chemistry was Thomas Willis, who was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford in 1660, and moving to London in 1666, acquired the largest fashionable practice of the day. Willis was a remarkable example of the capacity of the English physicians for close, careful clinical observation. His work on nervous diseases and on hysteria are justly esteemed for their many striking clinical pictures, of which his description of dementia paralytica is perhaps the most important. His Pharmaceutice Rationalis gives a valuable epitome of the materia medica of his time. The second part has been praised by Osler for its description of whooping cough." (Quoted from Fielding Garrison's An Introduction to the History of Medicine.)

A-T4, U-Z2, A-Z4, Aa-Ee4, Ff1
http://estc.bl.uk/R40709
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