{"title":"‘A great and difficult thing, and full of hazard’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 17, ‘A great and difficult thing, and full of hazard: the discourse of the soul’, provides an analysis of Pathologiæ cerebri (1667), Affectionum quæ dicuntur hystericæ et hypochondriacæ (1670) and De anima brutorum (1672). The chapter starts with Willis’s description of perverted activity of the particles in blood and the animal spirits which converts ordered movement into convulsion. The concept includes epilepsy and disorders of movement with preserved awareness, and extends to cough. An account is given of Willis’s concept of hysteria and hypochondriasis as organic brain disorders. His further work on comparative anatomy and animal behaviour as the basis for distinguishing the corporeal soul of brutes from the rational soul of man is described. The chapter provides an analysis of Willis’s writing on the human senses and passions followed by additional accounts of brain diseases and those affecting the mind, together representing a foundational work in psychiatry and behavioural neurology. {150 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133828939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The whole dowry of all nature’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 12, ‘The whole dowry of all nature: Opera omnia (1676–1720)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of fifteen copies of Willis’s collected works in Latin, the eighth publication, containing treatises: 1–13, variously including William Croone’s treatise De ratione motus musculorum, and with the Latin translation of A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague also present in one edition (1695). 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. {100 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116306269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A certain physiologie and pathology of the brain and nervous stock’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0008","url":null,"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}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"03 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127454395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Setting down experiments of the sciences’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2: ‘Setting down experiments of the sciences: printing and the works of Thomas Willis’ starts with a brief account of Willis as a reader, identifying c.100 authors, ancient and contemporary, whom he cites in the treatises. Within a general account of the book trade in the mid-seventeenth century, the tensions relating to censorship and licensing for potential authors are described. Willis’s first books were produced by individuals closely associated with publications of the Royal Society. It is explained that after the fire of London, publication moved to Oxford under the influence of his brother-in-law, Samuel Fell. The chapter provides brief biographies of thirty-four members of the book trade involved in publishing Willis’s books in England. This is followed by a similar approach to description of the book trade in continental Europe where editions of Thomas Willis’s books were published by twenty-three individuals working in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and Italy. {149 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123158933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘To be avoided as if they were sick’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 11. ‘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 (1691–1721)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of five copies of Willis’s seventh published book in which is included one treatise: 14. A plain and easie method etc. 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. {91 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120892401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘To practice medicine with a safe conscience’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 18, ‘To practice medicine with a safe conscience: rational therapeutics’ summarizes both parts of Pharmaceutice rationalis (1674, 1675), The London practice of physick (1685), A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague (1691) and Dr Willis’s receipts for the cure of all distempers (1701). The analysis emphasizes that the theme running through these treatises is Willis’s concept that vitality is dependent on healthy nutrition, adequate respiration, fermentation and circulation of the blood, and excretion. His therapies target one or other of these processes, usually in combination. The point is made that although most of the ingredients are no longer favoured, Willis’s pharmacopoeia is rational in the context of his ideas. His advice on lifestyle with botanical remedies and the products of chemical laboratories are described. In addition to surgical manoeuvres such as bleeding and the cutting of issues and fontanels, details are provided of innovative procedures including oesophageal stenting and drainage of pleural fluid. {150 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133641680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 16: ‘Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves: the brain and nervous stock’ summarizes Willis’s treatises in Cerebri anatome, Nervorumque descriptio et usus (1664), De motu musculari (1670) and De anima brutorum (1672). Willis’s coinage of the term ‘neurologie’, intending this as the doctrine of the nerves based on the anatomy of the cranial nerves rather than the study of diseases affecting the brain and nervous stock, is described. The chapter explains why these treatises are additionally important for assigning function to the cerebrum and cerebellum rather than the ventricles; the concept of cerebral localization; the distinction between voluntary and involuntary, or reflex, movement; Willis’s account of the autonomic nervous system; and his ideas on muscular movement. Apart from these innovative contributions, Willis’s description of the arrangement of blood vessels supplying the brain and spinal cord, for which the book is celebrated, is described. The fifteen engraved plates are included. {148 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114316428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Addicted to the opening of heads’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6: ‘Addicted to the opening of heads: Cerebri anatome (1664–1683)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of thirteen copies of Willis’s second published book in which are included two treatises: 4. Cerebri anatome; and 5. Nervorum descriptio et usus. These are the first of Willis’s treatises to be illustrated; of the twenty-three images engraved on fifteen printers’ plates, some are the work of Christopher Wren. The descriptions of these publications 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 are newly identified. {109 words}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125912286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Satisfying a mind desirous of truth’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0014","url":null,"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}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127427929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre’","authors":"A. Compston","doi":"10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198795391.003.0015","url":null,"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}","PeriodicalId":275597,"journal":{"name":"'All manner of ingenuity and industry'","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125899750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}