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Brain 2004 127(10):2373-2377; doi:10.1093/brain/awh304
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Brain Vol. 127 No. 10 © Guarantors of Brain 2004; all rights reserved

Book review

SOUL MADE FLESH: THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND THE MAPPING OF THE MIND

Carl Zimmer

2004. London: Heinemann

Price £17.99. ISBN 0434010464

William Feindel, MDCM, DPhil, FRCSC, FRSC

Montreal Neurological Institute and Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University Email: william.feindel@mcgill.ca

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Vindicating Willis


For more than a century, admirers of the life and work of Thomas Willis (1621–1675) have tried to retrieve him from the penumbra cast by the historical limelight of his famous Oxford compatriots—Harvey, Sydenham,Boyle, Wren and Lower—and his brilliant students Hooke and Locke. Their sustained efforts have had some success. Charles Sherrington (1951)Go put it unequivocally. ‘Thomas Willis practically refounded the anatomy and physiology of the brain and nerves.... He collated bedside observation with anatomical fact. He, as had Fernel, a century before him, shifted the seat of the anima from the chambers of the brain to the actual substance of the brain itself.... Willis put the brain and the nervous system on their modern footing so far as that could be then done.’ Charles Symonds (1955) was one of the first to point out the clinical significance of observations by Willis and his team on the anatomy and physiology . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Willisian sites

The founding of neurology

Wren's intravenous invention

The brain figures

Beam Hall

Cromwell and Canterbury

The soulful brain

The problem of neurology


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