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xiii, 507, (23) pp. (8vo) period calf with modern rebacking, original spine label laid down. Third Edition.

In this classic work, which Garrison calls “the most important English treatise on neurology after Willis”,  Whytt discusses the significance of emotions in the pathogenesis of nervousness, hypochondria, and hysteria. A pupil of Monro primus and predecessor of William Cullen in the chair of Medicine at Edinburgh, Whytt was one of the foremost physicians of the 18th century. He made important  contributions to clinical medicine and particularly to the understanding of reflex action.   His clear description of tuberculous meningitis, his explanation of the sentient principle in involuntary action and his discussion of the significance of emotions in the natural history of organic disease offset his mistaken emphasis on the value of lime water in the treatment of calculi in the urinary tract.--See Heirs of Hippocrates 923. Garrison-Morton 4841, citing the first edition of 1765.