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An Account of fome BO 0 K S. 
I. J>^ 'JNIMJ BmiOKUM Exmimmes dual 
fmr FHTSl OLOG ICJ, altera jP J 7 HO LOG I CJ, 
JutkThoimWillis <^,D. FhilofNktur^rof Ssdlej, Oxon. 
necmn Med. C0ll,hond, & S6cJleg.SociL Oxonii^ J, 1 6 72. 
Hat the Learned Author of this difficult Atgiiment had 
heretofore promifed^ he now in this Book with much 
care performeth ; which is the F^thdogyof the Eram^md the Mer^ 
vom i'/;?^, explicating the Difeafes that afleft it,and teaching their 
Cures ; together with fome previous PhyfioLogical Confiderat ions 
thtSoule cf Brutes. 
Andbccaufe it may, by jfome, be thought fomewhat paradox* 
leal, that he afljgncth to that Soul, whereby both Brutes and Men 
have life^ fenfe, and local motion , not only extenfion ^ and as 
'twere Organical parts, but alfo peculiar Difeafes, and appropri- 
ate Cures; andbecaufe alfo he diftinguiflies this meerly vital and 
Senfitrve Soul from the Rational, to which he makes it fubordi- 
nate, andfomaketh man a Double-foul'd Animal ; he maketh ic. 
firft of all his bufinefs to clear thefe matters,and to free them from 
What may fcem ofFenfive in them. 
In the doing of this he denicth not the Corporeity of the Brutal 
Soul, eftceming, that both by confiderable Arguments , and'by 
very amplc,ancient andmodem,SufFrages, the fame may be.cvinced; 
and befides , that its Bif Wtitm is by a nccefTary confequcnce 
deducible from the fmmem Life of the Bk»d y and tte lucid or 
iEthereal fubftanccof the Jnimal Sprits ; both which he hath 
formerly aflerted, and endeavoured to prove* For, if it be gran« 
ted him, that the Vital portion of this Soul, lodgipgin the Bloud^, 
be a kind of Fire, aridthe part be nothing but an Ag« 
gregate of Animal Spirits, diffufed all over in ti^e Brain and 
Nerves; he draws thiis confequence, That the Soul of a Brute, 
co-extended to the whole Body, hath not only many and diftind, 
but alfo fomewhat diffimilar, parts* And if it be ob jefted, that 
the Soul of a Brute is immaterial , becaufe it perceivetb, or is 
aware that it kds, Matter fecming incapable of Perception; he 
T t t ' anfvrers^ 
