Volume 1

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].

  • Thomas Willis
Date:
1681
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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The PREFACE. jeft, that t proftitute the unulual Notions, and almoft only- heard of, in the Shops of theChymifts, unhandfomly among the works of ordinary people, I fay, thefe Principles, which being brought indeed to perform the felf moving motions of Natural things, alio more ea/ily to reprefent them to the vulgar capacity, and lay them not only before their Eyes, but even into their very Hands • what of thefe kind of fubftances I call Particles, men tho rude and unskilful, may perceive even by the help of their fenfes to be in the things: befides the names of Sulphur, Salt, and Spirit, and the reft, are more familiarly known, than Matter, and Form, or the four Principles of the fperipateticks. As to our method, and man- ner of Philofophizing, no man can blame me, if I fliould not here defcribe all things according to Rule, and Analy tick Patterns; becaule in this Work, it chances for me to wander, without a Guide, or Companion, in folitary places, and as it were in a io'iitude trodden by no footfteps, where I not on¬ ly make a Journey, but my way alfo : therefore, whenever ] deviate, 1 cannot be faid to err, among right Judges of our endeavours, who have no Path in which I (hould Walk nor could find a Track, which I might fear to mils. / ON