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4to (240 x 150 mm) 28 nn.ll., 547 pp. (mispaginated 565, pages 16 to 33 omitted without loss), 10 engraved folding plates, 8 nn.ll. (bookseller's catalogue and index). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, speckled edges.
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Garrison-Morton, 1544, 4793, 4966; Norman, 2244-45; Waller, 10321; NLM, 13015.
First edition, London imprint. "Unlike Descartes, Willis believed that man has two souls, an immortal and uniquely human rational soul, and a mortal animal soul shared by all members of animal kingdom… He attributed a large range of deseases to neurological disturbances, among them headache, lethargy, melancholy, apoplexy, frenzy and paralysis, but recognized the difference between the symptoms of organic brain desease and those of mental illness… He gave what is probably the first account of general paralysis of the insane, and described the auditory phenomenon now known as "paracusis of Willis" in his chapter on hearing" (Norman).
A fine copy. Early provenance: Johannis Francisci Doctoris Medici Monspeliensis, 1730.
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