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Dr. Willis's practice of physick : being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates. The Pharmaceutice new translated, and the whole carefully corrected and amended

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Title: Dr. Willis's practice of physick : being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates. The Pharmaceutice new translated, and the whole carefully corrected and amended

Other titles: Practice of physick

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Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.3

Creator(s): Willis, Thomas (1621-1675)

Additional creator(s): Pordage, Samuel (1633-1691?) (Other)

Related people: Pordage, Samuel

Publisher: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1684

Language: English

Size and medium: [1086] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168721

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010350619705181

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Various paging.


Some of the treatises have special t.-p.

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