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 -- 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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  • Deopilative Medicins in the Jaundies, p. 92
  • Description of the Trachea and Larinx, p. 3
  • Of the Pneumonick Artery and Vein, p. 67
  • ...

Page 153

  • ... Of a Peripneumony, p. 57
  • Of an Ascites, p. 100
  • Of a Tympany, p. 110
  • Of an Anasarca, p. 116
  • Of the Ephelides, p. 153
  • Of Lenticular and Liver-spots, ib.
  • Of the Scab, p. 155
  • Diaphoreticks, how beneficial in an Ascites, p. 105
  • Taken in a larger Dose they profit in an Anasarca, p. 122
  • Diaphragma, it follows the motion of the Ab∣domen, p. 11.
  • Diastole and Systole of the Bronchia, p. 5
  • Of a Lung, p. 9
  • Diseases of the Liver, p. 90
  • Disposition of the Bloud in the Pneumatick veins, p. 7
  • Disposition hereditary, what it is, p. 32
  • Diuretick Hydragogues, what profit they bring in an Ascites, p. 104
  • With what choice and difference they ought to be administred, ib.
  • Diureticks, and chiefly Lixivials, the reason and manner of their operation in an Ana∣sarca, inquired into, p. 121
  • Dropsie of the Brest easily known, p. 85
  • Its cause hidden, ib.
  • How many ways it may be produced, ib.
  • Its cure by Paracentesis, p. 86
  • The differences of this Disease, p. 87
  • Diagnostick signs, ib.
  • Cure, ib.
  • Dropsie. See Ascites.
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