De Anima Brutorum, Quae Hominis Vitalis ac Sensitiva est, exercitationes duae. Prior Physiologica… Altera Pathologica.

by Nataniel Willis

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Garrison-Morton, 1544, 4793 4966 ; Norman, 2244-45 ; Waller, 10321 ; NLM, 13015. Edition originale. Exemplaire de second tirage, l adresse de Londres. Ouvrage important de cet anatomiste, physiologiste et th oricien anglais (1621-1675). Dans ce trait de l me des brutes , Willis qui l on doit l invention du terme neurologie soutient la th se selon laquelle le striatum recevrait toutes les informations sensitives, tandis que le corps calleux serait associ l imagination et le cortex c r bral la m moire. 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 diseases to neurological disturbances, among them headache, lethargy, melancholy, apoplexy, frenzy and paralysis, but recognized the difference between the symptoms of organic brain disease 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). Les 10 planches grav es sur cuivre montrent des coupes du cerveau et autres organes. Bon exemplaire. Ex-libris manuscrit Johannis Francisci Doctoris Medici Monspeliensis, 1730 .

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