'All manner of industry and ingenuity' : a bio-bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis 1621-1675 / Alastair Compston.

All manner of industry and ingenuity

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

xvi, 806 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white) ; 25 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the tents of the king as well as the muses: The life and reputation of Thomas Willis -- Setting down experiments of the sciences: printing and the works of Thomas Willis -- To delineate with most skillful hands: illustration and the printed works of Thomas Willis -- The mystery and school house of nature: bibliography and the works of Thomas Willis -- Those first forgotten particles: Diatriboe duce medico-philosophicae (1959-1687) -- Addicted to the opening of heads: An Iliad of evils in the head: Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae et hypicgibdruacae (1670-1678) -- To understand all things but itself" De anima brutorum (1672-1573) -- The happy curing of cephalick diseases: Pharmaceutice rationalis (1674-1679) -- To be avoided as if they were sick: A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague (1961-1721) -- The whole dowry of all nature: Opera omnia (1676-1720) -- Satisfying a mind desirous of truth: Dr. Willis's practice of physick (1679-1684) -- Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre: The London practice (1685-1695) -- The hearths and altars for the vital fire: medical chemistry and disease -- Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves: the brain and nervous stock -- A great and difficult thing, and full of hazard: the discourse of the soul -- To practice medicine with a safe conscience: rational therapeutics.