Flesh in the age of reason: the modern foundations of body and soul, and a dialogue by Jeremy Collier (1695).

Sir, In Volume 127, Issue 10 of Brain a review of the late Roy Porter’s last, great book Flesh in the age of reason (2003) appeared (Myer, 2004). Porter, who died in 2002, was Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London, and Editor of the Cambridge illustrated history of medicine (Browne, 2003). Summarizing Porter’s chapter on Samuel Johnson (entitled Johnson and incorporated minds), the author of the review wrote: