‘Satisfying a mind desirous of truth’

Abstract

Chapter 13, ‘Satisfying a mind desirous of truth: Dr Willis’s practice of physick (1679–1684)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of eleven copies of Willis’s treatises in English, books nine to twelve, intended as a single work, variously including treatises 1–13: made up as three copies of treatises 12–13, 7 (Pharmaceutice rationalis, 1679); three copies of treatises 1–6, 9–10 (The remaining medical works, 1681); one copy of treatises 1–7, 9–10, 12–13 (Dr Willis’s practice of physick, 1681); one copy of treatise 11 (Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes, 1683); and three copies of treatises 1–7, 9–13 (Dr Willis’s practice of physick, 1684). 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. {149 words}