# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-glisson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:09.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-glisson"
name: "Francis Glisson"
slug: "francis-glisson"
description: "Francis Glisson was an English physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets. An experiment he performed helped debunk the balloonist theory of muscle contraction by showing that when a muscle contracted under water, the water level did not rise, and thus no air or fluid could be entering the muscle."
tagline: "British doctor; (1597-1677)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Glisson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1597-10-14"
deathDate: "1677-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.34470933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump