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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41429	The Royal College of Physicians of London, founded and established by law as appears by letters patents, acts of Parliament, adjudged cases, &c. : and An historical account of the College's proceedings against empiricks and unlicensed practisers, in every princes reign from their first incorporation to the murther of the royal martyr, King Charles the First / by Charles Goodall ...	Goodall, Charles, 1642-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1091; ESTC R8914	319,602	530

extant and his ingenious conjectures about the uses of its several parts particularly the oblique ascension of the Carotid Artery and the cavity formed by the Sinus laterales before they enter the Jugular Veins His distinction of the Nerves is worth remark viz. that some of them arise from the Brain which are serviceable to voluntary motion Others from the Cerebellum which furnish spirits for involuntary He hath also traced the Nerves which are inserted into all the Viscera and by laying open their different originations plexus's and ramifications hath given us a much clearer account of the sympathies of the several parts of the body either in their natural or preternatural State than any we had before He hath likewise in this book given a most ingenious account how the Animal spirits are generated and instilled into the Brain how their faculties are performed how nutrition is caused and distributed with many things more relating to sense and motion and the explication of several abstruse diseases highly ingenious and probable He hath carried on his Hypothesis about the Nerves and given a very rational account of the affections of the Head with their several causes and cures and particularly in his Treatise De morbis Convulsivis he hath shewn us how much former Authors have been mistaken in their notions concerning Hysterical and Hypochondriacal affections and that the most rational account that can be given of the symptoms attending those distempers is by attributing them to convulsive motions He likewise conjectures that the Colick Tympanites and some sorts of Asthma's are in great part nervous distempers and then finisheth that book with a most ingenious and excellent discourse of the Scurvy as to its causes differences Diagnosticks Prognosticks Symptomatical diseases deriving their Original from it with the different methods of cure An. Dom. 1667. He left Oxford and came to London where he immediately fell into a very large and full practice notwithstanding which he found time to write several excellent and usefull books as one against Dr. Highmore in defence of his Hypothesis De Hysterica affectione Melancholia Hypochondriaca with 2 other Tracts De sanguinis accensione motu musculari After that he wrote a most Learned book De Anima Brutorum morbis Capitis then his 2 last viz. his Pharmaceutices Rationalis pars prior posterior In which he hath given us a most accurate account of the Anatomy of the Stomach and Intestines with their several coats as also a description of the several Membranes that compose the Veins and Arteries likewise an excellent Anatomy of the Lungs To which he hath added a rational account of the operation of Medicines whether Emetick Cathartick Diaphoretick Cardiack Thoracick Epatick or Opiate and endeavoured to render them intelligible by Mechanical principles He hath also in those books discoursed of the diseases of the Breast Liver and Spleen as likewise concerning Phlebotomy Haemorrhagies Issues Vesicatories and Cutaneous diseases illustrating the whole with many curious observations The first of these books which he published An. Dom. 1674. he dedicated to the College of Physicians Vpon which dedication the College passed the following Vote Placuit omnibus nemine refragante ut summae gratiae habeantur Doctori Willis ob Pharmaceuticem Rationalem Collegio datam I shall finish my present History of this pious learned and great man with part of that excellent and deserved Character given him by the Learned and Reverend Prelate the present Bishop of Oxford in a Postscript to the Preface before the Doctor 's second part of his Pharmaceutice rationalis Dum haec prelo subduntur tristissimus affertur nuncius Autorem immortalitate dignissimum pleuritidis ineluctabili impetu oppressum è vivis excessisse nec profuisse Domino artes quae aliis omnibus profuerant Dabit veniam Lector si memoriae tam sacrae aliquantisper parentemus nec supervacuum ducet paucis audire qualis ille vir fuerat qui talia scripserat porrò intelligere gestiet quàm bonus erat ille qui tam doctus quàm etiam in pietatis praxi exercitatus qui in praxi Medica versatissimus Pientissimae animae divini numinis cultus eadem usque cura insederat quandoquidem horis Canonicis in Ecclesia Parochiali Aedibus suis vicinae precibus publicis per negotia interesse non liceret ut officia sacra primo mane sero vespere ibidem celebrarentur procuravit iisque negotiis quibuscunque frustra reclamantibus semper ferè vacavit Insuper cùm videret institutum illud utile admodum fuisse pluribus qui in vicinia pariter toto die in mercatura aliisque artibus exercendis distringebantur Sacerdotem id munus per futura secula obiturum idoneo salario dotavit Sed leve hoc documentum egregii in pietatem animi Quanquam ipso nemo magis frugalis ad rem attentus nemo magis munificus omnia scilicet sibi nihil autem pauperibus miseris negaverat Praeter illa quae propriâ manu elargitus est Eleemosynarios dispensatores in Urbe Rure Academio sparsos habuit Rem multis experimentis mihi compertissimam loquor faciliùs quis ab ipso centum Aureos idoneo pietatis opere proposito acceperit quàm à plerisque aliis extorserit totidem Asses Et quanquam diutinae diligentiae perpetuae frugalitati amplas quas collegerat opes jure merito quis potuerit imputare ego imprimis effusissimae quam dixi largitioni benedictioni insuper divinae acceptum referendum censeo A prima ejus adolescentia ad ultimum vitae diem nullam pecuniarum quam acceperat summam pro suo habuit donec Deo pauperibus partem non contemnendam sacram fecisset cúmque ante paucos dies quódque mihi semper dolendum ultimò unà colloqueremur de rationibus istis dispungendis tanquam venturi fati fuisset praescius de pauperibus magis quàm prole sua solicitus consilia diligentissimè agitabat Mitto dicere quàm in adversa fortuna infractus in affluente fuerat temperans quàm in summa eruditionis fama modestus cum indignè lacesseretur quàm ad injurias condonandas facilis quàm Principi ultima passo fidus Ecclesiae oppressae obsequens in Artis professione candidus apertus in studiis indefessus sermone parcus in toto vitae statu Christianus Quae omnia pro merito exequi non unius horae paginaeve res esset Breviter dicendum quòd perpetuis precibus studiis laboribus eleemosynis vigiliis exercitus tandem annos ferè 57. natus sub praesentis Novembris initium Tussi nunc temporis epidemiâ laborare visus est quae cùm ceu leve quiddam spreta esset in Pleuritin Peripneumoniam illico transiit Cúmque Vir consultissimus sanguine saepius misso remediis diligenter adhibitis non relevaretur Amicis meliora ominantibus vitae exitum advenisse statim animadvertit post triduum constitutâ