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 May 8, 2025.

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The First Figure

Shews the Lobster open in the back, that the Brain, Viscera, Vital, Genital, and other interior Parts may be seen.

  • A. A. The Brain double, the Hemispheres of which being distinct, are separated one from the other, also a little from the oblong Marrow.
  • B. The Head of the oblong marrow, out of which the optick Nerves b. b. and the Mammillarie Processes under them, proceeds.
  • C. The Cerebell.
  • D. D. Two shanks of the Oblong Marrow, which pass into the Spinal, and as it were two grea∣ter Nerves, meet now and then in their descent, and now and then separate, and then again come together.
  • E. The Carotis Arterie.
  • F. F. A portion of the Oesophagus.
  • G. The Opening of the Ventricle.
  • H. The upper Orifice.
  • I. The Bottom and Lower Orifice near which are three Teeth.
  • K. The Temporal Muscles out of their place.
  • L. L. Muscles appendixes of the former.
  • M. M. Bodies stuffed with pipes and Glandula's or little Kernels, into which passages lye. open, fro•…•… the Ventricle, to whose Sides they grow; these seem to be in the place of the Liver and Mesenterie.
  • m. m. m. m. The same Bodies brought lower from either side, and ending in the processes, μ. μ.
  • n. n. Spermatick Bodies arising on both sides of the Ventricle, which descending under the Peri∣cardium, are terminated in the processes, n. n.
  • o. o. Processes out of the Spermatick Bodies, like to the Epididymis, from which are two Yards.
  • p. p. Two Yards, in the tops of which, thorow the holes made in the last little feet but one, a passage lyes open.
  • q. The bole in the little Foot for the going forth of the Yards.
  • R. The Pericardium, with the Heart included.
  • S. The little Ear of the Heart into which the Vena Cava enters.
  • T. T. The ascending Trunk of the Vena Cava.
  • V. The Aorta going out of the Heart, cleft into three branches.
  • W. The first Branch to its Head.
  • X. X. Two other Branches in either Side sent thence to the Gills.

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  • Y. Y. The Tops of some of the Gills in view.
  • 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Some portions of the Muscles.
  • α. α. α. α. Ligaments from the Pericardium to the Muscles of the Breast.
  • β. β. β. β. The Muscles of the Belly, and Breast.
  • γ. γ. γ. γ. Muscles belonging to the Tail.
  • δ. δ. The Intestine from the Ventricle to the Arse.
  • ε. ε. Tubes or Pipes, within which, the Optick Nerves are brought to the Eyes.
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