Opera omnia, nitidus quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata.

Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1682.

"English physician, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy at Oxford, and a founder of the Royal Society, born at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and took his medical degree in 1660. He made several important contributions to medicine including his description of the arterial supply to the base of the brain (circle of Willis); a description of epidemic typhoid fever; and of the symptoms in achalasia cardia and its treatment. He introduced the concept of 'involuntary' and 'voluntary' or 'volitional' movements in 1664" (Dictionary of the History of Medcine).

"British physician, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions; he is known for his careful studies of the nervous system and of various diseases. An Oxford professor of natural philosophy, he opened a London practice in 1666 that became the most fashionable and profitable of the period" (Britannica).

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