Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE Personifying the Brain: Willis’s Neuroscience

TWO Nervous Figures: Cavendish’s Panpsychism

THREE From Metaphor to Madness: Locke’s History

FOUR Visionary Dissections: The Satire of Anatomy

FIVE From the Homunculus to the Great Sensorium of the World: Sterne’s Nerves

SIX The Hypochondriac’s Watch: Boswell’s Case

Notes

Bibliography

Index