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An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.

Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.

Thomas Willis. Line engraving after D. Loggan.

Anatomy and medicine performed outside a temple of Apollo and Aesculapius, representing themes in the works of Thomas Willis. Etching attributed to R. de Hooghe, 1682.

Thomas Willis. Line engraving, 1682, after D. Loggan.

Thomas Willis. Line engraving by W. Read after D. Loggan.

Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures / [translated and edited] by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Thomas Willis. Line engraving, 1676, after F. Diodati.

Christopher Wren making his first demonstration of a method of introducing drugs into a vein, before Dr Willis, 1667. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

The story of science: power, proof and passion. Part 6, Who are we.

The nervous system. Engraving, 1686.

The intestines. Engraving, 1686.

Opera medica et physica in varios tractatus distributa ... / [Thomas Willis].

Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].

The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].

Veins and arteries. Engraving, 1686.

Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore. [Pars prima] / [Thomas Willis].

Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.

A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.

The lungs, trachea (windpipe) and thyroid. Engraving, 1686.

Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae : quarum prior agit de fermentatione, sive, de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore; altera, de febribus, sive, de motu earundem in sanguine animalium. His accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis. / Studio Thomae Willis, ex Aede Christi Oxon. M.D. & in ista celeberrima academia naturalis philosophiae professoris sidleiani.

Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, An exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies : Shewing the signs, causes, and cures of most distempers incident thereunto. : In two parts. : As also a treatise of the scurvy and the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes, and cure. / By Tho. Willis.

Experiments and observations upon oriental and other bezoar-stones, which prove them to be of no use in physick. Gascoin's powder, distinctly examin'd in its seven ingredients, censur'd and found imperfect : dedicated to the Royal Society to which is annex'd, a vindication of sugars against the charge of Dr. Willis, other physicians, and common prejudices dedicated to the ladies. Together with further discoveries and remarks / By Frederick Slare.

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Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures / [translated and edited] by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.

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Thomas Willis

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Images by Thomas Willis

Images featuring Thomas Willis

Works from the collections

Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures / [translated and edited] by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.

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