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WILLIS, Th. Affectionum quæ dicuntur hystericæ et hypochondriacæ pathologia spasmodica vindicata, contra responsionem epistolarem, contra N. Highmori, M.D. Cui acces. exercitationes medico-physicæ duæ. 1. De sanguinis accensione. 2. De motu mnusculari. Leyden, C. Driehuysen & F. Lopez, 1671. (6), 172 pp. 12°. Cont vellum. (Sm. rep. to bind., new endpapers, last blank lacks, lower part a bit moulded, espec. at the end).
G-M 4839 (1st ed., Lond., 1670): "In this treatise on hysteria and hypochondria, Willis showed that hysteria was a nervous disease and not a uterine disorder as had been traditionally believed. He compared hysteria in women to hypochondria in men." - Rare Leiden imprint, not in UB Leiden.€ 150
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