Thomas Willis

Willis, Thomas. A medical-philosophical discourse of fermentation Englished by S.P. Esq. London Printed for T. Dring. .. and sold by Robert Clavell, 1681. 

DONALD T. SAWYER, MARIO E. BODINI, LAURIE A. WILLIS, THOMAS L. RIECHEL, and KEITH D. MAGERS... 

Joanna Willis, Thomas Holdsworth, and Katherine Cathrow... 

Notorious Poisoners and Poisoning Cases, Pages 265-276, Joanna Willis, Thomas Floldsworth and Katherine Cathrow SummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (140 K)... 

Willis, Thomas. 1681. A Medical-Philosophical Discourse of Fermentation, trans. S. P. London Printed for T. Dring et al. 

In the late 1600s, Thomas Willis coined the term neurology and suggested that hysteria was a disorder of the nerves and brain. Willis was an important figure in establishing the biological bases for psychological disturbances. 

The latter half of the seventeenth century is marked by the activity of a considerable number of able investigators and writers on chemistry, notable among whom are Nicolas Le Febre (or Le Febure), ( -1674) Christopher Glaser (died about 1670-1673) Eobert Boyle (1627-1691) Thomas Willis (1621-1675) Johann Kunkel (1630-1702) Johann J. Becher (1635-1682) John Mayow (1645-1679) Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715) and Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715). All these men contributed to the increase of knowledge of the facts of chemistry by their researches and publications, which appeared from about 1660 to the close of the century. 

So also in 1671 Thomas Willis proposed a theory of combustion. When a flame arises and is maintained there is need of continuous supply of air, not merely to prevent the flame being suffocated by vaporous effluvia, but to supply the nitrous food (pabulum nitrosum) necessary to the burn-... 

This notion seems quite similar to Hooke s except that Willis appears to entertain the notion of a combination by the collision between the sulphureous particles of the combustibles and the nitrous particles of the air. It is interesting to note that Robert Hooke, Dr. Willis, and Robert Boyle were intimate friends and co-workers in Oxford and later in London, and were alike early members of the newly founded Royal Society. Thomas Birch, in his life of Boyle, for instance, referring to the air pump which Boyle made in 1558-1559 and which was perfected by Mr. Robert Hooke, says ... 

Ginsberg M. D. (2003) Adventures in the pathophysiology of brain ischemia penumbra, gene expression, neuroprotection the 2002 Thomas Willis Lecture. Stroke 34, 214-223. 

Detected by anatomists who dissected the cerebral hemispheres, the main structure of the basal ganglia was defined as corpus striatum by Thomas Willis in the 17th century (Willis, 1664) because of the mixture of gray matter and fiber tracts. Such mixture was... 

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Thomas Willis. Of the Anatomy of the Brain. Englished by Samual Pordage, Esquire, London. Printed for Dring, Harper. Leigh and Martyn, 1681. Facsimile Edition, McGill University Press, Montreal, 1965. p. 111. 

Wrighton, S.A., P.E. Thomas, P. Willis, S.L. Maines, P.B. Watkins, W. Levin et al. (1987). Purification of a human liver cytochrome P-450 immunochemi-cally related to several cytochromes P-450 purified from untreated rats. J. Clin. Invest. 80, 1017-1022. 

The first person to study the new or post-Aristotelian chemistry in Oxford, however, seems to have been Dr Thomas Willis of Christ Church, who had, with his friends Ralph Bathurst and John Lydall, studied Chymistry in Peckewater Inne chamber in the late 1640s.Yet more of Willis anon. And then came Dr (later Sir) William Petty. Following the radical reorganisation of Oxford after the capture of King Charles I and the end of the first cycle of civil wars in the late 1640s, many new faces were intruded into the University by Parliament, to replace Royalist dons who would not forswear their loyalty to His Majesty and were thus ejected from their posts in 1648. To put it plainly. 

Chemically and physiologically wrong, in exact scientific terms, as we now know Thomas Willis s ideas to have been, his wider significance in the history... 

Also Robert Mortensen, Thomas Willis , Oxford DNB. 

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