1. Wood Anthony, Athenae oxonienses … to which are added the Fasti, ed. by Bliss P. (New York, 1967), iii, 1051.
2. Discussions of selected aspects of Willis's philosophy and significance can be found in Frank RobertJr, Harvey and the Oxford physiologists: Scientific ideas and social interaction (Berkeley, 1980), 165-9, 221-3, 232-7, et passim
3. Brown Theodore, The mechanical philosophy and the 'animal oeconomy' (New York, 1981), 151-60
4. and Cook Harold, Decline of the old medical regime (Ithaca, 1986), 184-5. The quote is taken from W. Russell Brain, " The concept of hysteria in the time of William Harvey", Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, section of the history of medicine, lvi (1963), 1963-24, p. 322.