The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates
A 1681 London medical compendium by the physician Thomas Willis, printed for booksellers including Thomas Dring and Robert Clavell, and aimed at English readers with little Latin or Greek. Its plates are engraved anatomical studies of the brain and its base, drawn in fine hatched line on pale paper, showing the cerebellum, cerebral hemispheres and brainstem from above and below. A designer might take their dense, precise cross-hatching and clean numbered-diagram layout as a model for scientific line illustration.
