‘A certain physiologie and pathology of the brain and nervous stock’

Abstract

Chapter 7: ‘A certain physiologie and pathology of the brain and nervous stock: Pathologiæ cerebri (1667–1678)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of seven copies of Willis’s third published book in which are included two treatises: 6. De morbis convulsivis; and 7. De scorbuto. It is the first publication which includes the portrait of Willis, aged 45, engraved by David Loggan on which formed all subsequent images were based. 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. {107 words}