Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.
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Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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London :: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh,
1684.
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Medicine.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66516.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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Histories, Of the Epilepsie, 18
Of Convulsions in Men and Women, 30, &c.
Of Convulsions arising from the extremities of the Nerves and nervous infoldings, 38, &c.
Of some Epidemical Feavers, 49
Of a rare convulsive Feaver, 54
Of a broken convulsive Distemper, 55
Of a continued convulsive distemper, from 60 to 65
Of some troubled with Mother-fits, 75
Of Hypochondriacks, 86
Of convulsive Astmahs, 94
Hypochondriac Passions often proceed from Convul∣sions, 30
Of the Hypochondriac distemper, 81
A description of its affections, ib.
This distemper belongs to the Nerves, 82
The causes of it, ib.
Dr. Heighmores opinion of it examined, ib.
The Reasons of the Hypochondriacal symptoms, 85
The influences of the Spleen thereupon, ib.
The cure of this disease, 87
Hysterical Passions often proceed from Convulsions, 30
Of an Hysterical distemper in a Man, 33
The reason of it, 34
Of the Hysterical passion commonly called the fits of the Mother, 69
A description of it, ib.
The causes of the symptoms, ib.
Dr. Heighmores opinion of it examined, 70
This distemper chiefly belongs to the brain and the nervous stock, 71
The cause of it chiefly about the beginnings of the Nerves, ib.
And afterwards displayed through the whole, ib.
The reason of its symptoms, ib.
From whence the diversity of the symptoms happen, 72
The more remote cause of this disease, ib.
How the Womb is affected in the Histerical di∣stemper, 73
The Womb not always in fault in these fits, 74
An account of this disease taken from some Ana∣tomical observations, 77
The cure of the Hysterical distemper, 78
How to preserve one from it, 79
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