WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675)
1621 – 1675
10 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1659 CE
#2464
Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae, quarum prior agit de fermentatione sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore, altera de febribus sive de motu earundum in sanguine animalium.
Includes (De febribus, cap. X, XIV) first description of epidemic typhoid. English translation in his Practice of physick, 1684, Treatise II, 83-98, 1111-18. Contains the earliest suggestion that fermentation is an in…
1664 CE
#1378
Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus.
The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term, “neurology". In its preparation Willis was helped by his students Richard Lower and Th…
1670 CE
#4839
Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae e hypochondriacae pathologia spasmodica vindicata…
In this treatise on hysteria and hypochondria, Willis showed that hysteria was a nervous disease and not a uterine disorder as had been traditionally believed. He compared hysteria in women to hypochondria in men. He …
1672 CE
#1544
De anima brutorum
Chap. XIV is devoted to the sense of hearing; in it Willis described the “paracusis of Willis” (p. 73). English translation, 1683. A probable description of myasthenia gravis is given in Pars. 2, Cap. IX. …
1674 CE–1675 CE
#3926
Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore. 2 vols.
Willis’s last work deals with the anatomy and physiology of the thoracic and abdominal organs, and contains the first description of the superficial lymphatics of the lungs, the first clinical and pathological a…
1676 CE–1680 CE
#62
Opera omnia. 2 vols.
Willis was remarkable for his careful clinical observation. He was second only to Sydenham in his day. To him we owe the original descriptions of several conditions. Digital facsimile of the Lyon, 1681 edition from th…
1684 CE
#1311
Dr. Willis's practice of physick.
The only complete edition of Willis's works in English, translated by the poet Samuel Pordage. It contains the translations of all his works except his Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae (1671). The collection inclu…
1980 CE
#11736
Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…
1981 CE
#11735
Willis's Oxford casebook (1650-52) edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
2021 CE
#13916
