Volume 2

Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes which is that of the vital and sensitive of man : the first is physiological shewing the nature, parts, powers, and affections of the same the other is pathological, which unfolds the diseases which affect it and its primary seat; to wit, the brain and nervous stock, and treats of their cures with copper cuts / By Thomas Willis ; Englished by S. Pordage.

  • Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
Date:
1683
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Credit: Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes which is that of the vital and sensitive of man : the first is physiological shewing the nature, parts, powers, and affections of the same the other is pathological, which unfolds the diseases which affect it and its primary seat; to wit, the brain and nervous stock, and treats of their cures with copper cuts / By Thomas Willis ; Englished by S. Pordage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lb: 'A i , i \ the Stone converted into the Gout, and the Gout into the Stone, 224. 0/ the Colicky 233, 234. of a mortal madnefs from eat¬ ing the leaves of Wolfs bane 204 Hope, 53» 54 I. I Mages, light, and colour are of the fame fab- fiance 75 Imaginary Metamorphofis of melancholic!^per- fons 200 Imagination, V. Phantafy. Incubus, or Night-mare its feat in the cere bel, 142. its dejcription, ibid, it mo ft often proceeds from natural caufes, ibid, its feat faljely placed in the Brain, ibid, the Pra- cordta truly labour in this Difeafe, ibid. its caufe doth not ftick, partly in tbe Brain, and partly in the Breafi, ibid, its next caufe is the hindrance of the inflowing of the Spi¬ rits to the Pracordia, 143. this not in the parts affetted, nor Nerves themfelves, but in the cerebel, where the firft fpring of the fpirits is, ibid, from whence the fenfe of the weight and lofs of motion proceeds, ibid. why the fit being fo grievous is fo often end¬ ed without leaving any evil, ibid, whence the trembling of the Heart and Pr&cordia after the fit, ibid, the Incubus of it felf rarely dangerous, ibid, itsprognoflicks, 144. its Cure, ibid, how infants and boys obno¬ xious to this Difeafe ought to be handled, ibid. Infects appear to have fiery Souls, becaufe they want Julphurous and nitrous food 8 Inftances of paffion merely Thyfical 46 Inftinft natural, what it is, 34. what it brings to Brutes, ibid, examples of it, ibid, it di¬ lates to them what’s wholefome, what not, 3 5 .leads not only to fimple all tons,but to very complicate ones, ibid, yet thofe always, and in all, of one kind only, ibid, how ’tis wont to be compared with acquired notions, 37. and with the imprejfions of fenfible things, ibid, with habits learned from example or institution, ibid, with notions learned from experience and imitation ibid. Intellect in man prefides o’re the imagination, &c. 38. and difcerns its errors, fublimates its notions, and divefts them from matter, and contemplates immaterial fubfiances, judges and dir efts its propofitions, deduces from thefe others more fublimt thoughts, be¬ holds it felf by a reflected option, and con¬ templates other things remote from fenfe, as God, tire. 39. it depends upon the Phan¬ tafy, 41. by reafon of the various conftituti on of this and the Brain, Souls feems unequal 42. Iflues made upon or near the diftemperd place help little 119 K. L L Knowledge from fenfe 57 L. I i LEthargy, its feat the fame with that of Sleep and Memory, 125. its Fits are call’d by this name,ibid, and the foporiferous difpofition alfo, 126. of which are various kinds, ibid, its caufes, ibid.ro 128. what things belong to its theory, 12 9. the chief eft of its fymptoms, ibid, by what means the other faculties of the Soul, as the knowing, defiring and locomotive are aft died ibid. its evil reaches alfo to the cerebel, ibid. hence breathing often hurt or altered, ibid. which proceeds not from he inflammation of the midriff, ibid, its Fever from whence, ibid, and 130. none dyes without one, ibid. its prognoflicks, ibid, its cure, 13 1 to 133. Hiftories, ibid, its ends or limits as to the places diftempered are conftituted, ibid, fome fleepy diftempers leffer than it, the Caros greater ibid. Light, Colours and Images the fame fubfiance, 75. Light and Flame their differences, 76. wherefore Light either refleUed or refrafted goes forward only in ftreight lines, ib. it can pafs through a Chamber, in. the mean time not to be perceived, ibid. *tis primary or fecundary, ibid, the differences of thefe, 77 Lobfter, its Anatomy 11,12 Local motion fiir’d up by the appetite 36 Love, how excited, 50. it and hatred tranfttory pajfions, 51. its objdl fet up like an Idol in the Phantafy and worjhtpped 50 Love-madnefi, 199. reafons of its fymptoms ibid. Lucid part of the Soul, 22. fhines diver fly, 31. alteration of the flamy part impreffed by it - 32 Lungs, how differ in Birds and four footed Beaffs, 17. for what end perforated in Birds ibid. M. MAdnefs and Melancholy are a-kjn, 201 the fubjett of Madnefs are the Anima, Spirits, tbe difpofition of which are like tt Stygian Water, ibid, three chief accident, in Madnefs, which are alfo to be found it Stygian Water, 201, 202. the conjunfr caufe of Madnefs what it is, ibid, the ori ginal of Madnefs , either from the Spirit themfelves, or from the Blood, 203. it be gins from the Spirits from two occafions,ibid by what means it comes upon Melancholy 204. how upon a Phrenfy, ibid, the ori gin* \ V