‘Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre’

Abstract

Chapter 14. ‘Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre: The London practice of physick (1685–1695)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of nine copies of Willis’s thirteenth and fourteenth published books containing extracts that relate to the practice of medicine contained in treatises 2, 6, 7, 11–13 (The London practice of physick, 1685), and one with unspecified contents but probably based on the same treatises (Dr Willis’s receipts for the cure of all distempers , 1701). These descriptions are preceded by a narrative highlighting the main bibliographic issues that characterize the various editions, states, and issues of these copies. Of these, some are already known but others newly identified. {109 words}