Thomas Willis

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English physician (1621-1675)

DoctorsLived 1621 to 1675 · aged 54

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Peak1800s

In century#616

Thomas Willis FRS was an English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry, and was a founding member of the Royal Society.

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Frontispiece to Willis's 1663 Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae - quarum prior agit de fermentatione, engraved and published by Gerbrandus Schagen in Amsterdam

The Circle of Willis, a loop of arteries that supplies blood to the brain. As pictured in Cerebri anotome (1664).

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Fellow of the Royal Society

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FatherThomas Willis, of Oxford

MotherRachell Howell, of Hinksey

ChildThomas Willis, of Bletchley, Bucks

Doctors born in the 1620s 6

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Giuseppe Francesco Borri42.6

Georg Händel41.0 Henry Power40.7

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Domenico Marchetti37.2