Alastair Compston

'All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity'

A Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675

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Produktbeschreibung

'All manner of industry and ingenuity' is the first book that combines the biographical, bibliographical, and scientific analyses of Thomas Willis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 824
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 182mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1778g
• ISBN-13: 9780198795391
• ISBN-10: 0198795394
• Artikelnr.: 61404474

Autorenporträt

Alastair Compston is professor emeritus of neurology in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was formerly president of the European Neurological Society and the Association of British Neurologists, and editor of Brain, a journal of neurology. His research on the clinical science of human demyelinating disease has been recognised by several international prizes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences; and is elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Germany and the National Academy of Medicine of the USA. He has been appointed Commander of the British Empire. He has a longstanding interest in antiquarian books. His main activity in retirement is writing on the history of medicine

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'In the tents of the King as well as the Muses': the life and
reputation of Thomas Willis
* 2: 'Setting down experiments of the sciences': printing and the works
of Thomas Willis
* 3: 'To delineate with most skillful hands': illustration and the
printed works of Thomas Willis
* 4: 'The mystery and school house of nature': bibliography and the
works of Thomas Willis
* 5: 'Those first forgotten particles': Diatribae duae
medico-philosophicae (1659 - 1687)
* 6: 'Addicted to the opening of heads': Cerebri anatome (1664 - 1683)
* 7: 'A certain physiologie and pathology of the brain and nervous
stock': Pathologiæ cerebri (1667 - 1678)
* 8: 'An Iliad of evils in the head': Affectionum quae dicuntur
hystericae and hypochondriacae (1670 - 1678)
* 9: 'To understand all things but itself': De anima brutorum (1672 -
1674)
* 10: 'The happy curing of cephalick diseases': Pharmaceutice
rationalis (1674 - 1679)
* 11: 'To be avoided as if they were sick': A plain and easie method
for preserving those that are well from the plague (1691 - 1721)
* 12: 'The whole dowry of all nature': Opera omnia (1676 - 1720)
* 13: 'Satisfying a mind desirous of truth': Dr Willis's practice of
physick (1679 - 1684)
* 14: 'Of drudgery in pursuit of lucre': The London practice of physick
(1685 - 1695)
* 15: 'The hearths and altars for the vital fire': medical chemistry
and disease
* 16: 'Neurologie: the doctrine of the nerves': the brain and nervous
stock
* 17: 'A great and difficult thing, and full of hazards': the discourse
of the soul
* 18: 'To practice medicine with a safe conscience': rational
therapeutics