Dr. Willis's practice of physick
being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. 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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Author
Contributions
- Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?, tr. - Contributor
- Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
1684 - Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
271,500 words, Guess
Page Count
1,086 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6989204M
- OCLC Control Number4085194
- OCLC Control Number987027116
- Internet Archiveb30324105_0003
- Library of Congress Control Number07032523
Classifications
- LCCR128.7 .W75
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- Dr. Willis's practice of physick: being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. 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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