Chapter
Chronology of Thomas Willis 1621-75
The writings of Thomas Willis
Willis and his circle of friends
The first use of the term neurology
The contents of Cerebri Anatome
A note on Pordage's translation
A bibliographic survey of Cerebri Anatome
Collected Editions containing Cerebri Anatome
Chap. 1 The methods of anatomical administration dissecting the brain is proposed
Chap. 2 Parts of the oblong marrow, and the rest of the hinder parts of the head are recounted, and their dissection shewn
Chap. 3 Description of the cerebel and its processes, also of the hinder region of the oblong marrow
Chap. 4 The parts and some of the contents of the seperated skull unfolded
Chap. 5 The brains of fowls and fishes described
Chap. 6 Of the offices of the brain and its parts: where first of all the uses of the skull and the hard meninx or dura mater is treated of
Chap. 7 Of the thinner meninx of pia mater, of its stretching out, also of the infoldings of the vessels every where interwoven with it
Chap. 8 Shews with what difference the arteries in various animals pass through the skull; also for what use the wonderful net is made and the reason of it
Chap. 9 Shews by what provision, and in what places of the head the animal spirits are begotten: Also other uses and accidents of the pia mater are added
Chap. 10 A description of the brain, properly so called, and the explication and use of its parts
Chap. 11 Shews with what motion and tentency of animal spirits the exercises of the animal faculties are performed within the confines of the brain: Also what the use of the ventricles is
Chap. 12 It is inquired into whether the serous humors, heaped together within the vacuity of the brain, be sent out by the pituitary glandula and the sieve-like bone, or not?
Chap. 13 The actions and uses of the oblong marrow, and of some of its parts are unfolded
Chap. 14 Of the uses of the pineal glandula and the choroeidal infolding; also of the orbicular prominences which are commonly called nates and teftes; and other parts which seem to be dependences of them
Chap. 15 Of the uses of the cerebel, and of some of its parts and processes
Chap. 16 Of the various order and diverse manner of exercise of the spirits producded in the cerebel for the acts of involuntary function
Chap. 17 Of the nerves, which receiving the storesor companies of the spirits from cerebel, bestow them on the acts of involuntary function
Chap. 18 Of the relation or mutual respect of either Appendix of the cerebel, to wit, of the anterior, which are the orbicular prominences; and the posterior, viz. the annular protuberance: Also of the remaining portion of the oblong marrow continuted into the spinal marrow
Chap. 19 Of the nervous system in general, where its parts (which are the nerves and fibres) being designed, a prosepect of the whole animal government is exhibited
Chap. 20 Of the nervous liquor, and whether that or the bloody humor be nutritious
Chap. 21 The first of four pair of nerves arising within the skull are described
Chap. 22 The fifth, sixth, and seventh pair of nerves are unfolded
Chap. 23 The description of the eighth pair of nerves
Chap. 24 The actions and uses of the nerves of the eighth pair, described in the foregoing chapter, are unfolded
Chap. 25 A description of the intercostal nerve
Chap. 26 The explication of the intercostal pair of nerves which are described in the former chapter as to their offices and uses: and first the upper branching of them is considered
Chap. 27 The lower branching of the intercostal nerve belonging to the parts and vifcera of the lower belly in unfolded
Chap. 28 Of the spinal nerve an accessory to the wandring pair; also of the nerve of diaphragma
Chap. 29 Of the reason of the difference that happens between the nerves of the wandring and the intercostal pair in man and brute beasts; also of the other pair of nerves arising both within the skull, and from the spinal marrow: also something of the blood-carrying vessels which belong to the spinal marrow
Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves
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