Thomas Willis ( 1621 1675 ), the great Oxford physician and natural philosopher, was born at Great Bedwyn on 27 January 1621 and was baptized on 14 February at the local St Mary the Virgin church.
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He obtained a bachelor of medicine in February 1675, having studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford and worked with such noted scientists and thinkers as Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Robert Hooke and Richard Lower.
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Towards the end of the century, however, the role of the uterus was no longer central to the disorder, with Thomas Willis discovering that the brain and central nervous system were the cause of the symptoms.
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Towards the end of the century, however, the role of the uterus was no longer thought central to the disorder, with Thomas Willis discovering that the brain and central nervous system were the cause of the symptoms.
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Avicenna also described diabetes insipidus very precisely for the first time, though it was much later that Thomas Willis differentiated it from diabetes mellitus in a chapter of his book " Pharmaceutice rationalis " ( 1674 ).
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A day later, when the dissection was about to be started, Oxford University physicians Ralph Bathurst, Thomas Willis, William Petty, and Henry Clerke, found out that Greene had a faint pulse and was weakly breathing, and with the help of restoratives she soon regained her health.
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These are the most recent articles : Henri Pitot, William Coddington, Thomas Gisborne, Cuno Amiet, Meredith Miles Marmaduke, Thomas Willis, Herbert Stothart, Julia Tutwiler, �douard Vuillard, James Tait, August Zaleski, Anna Magdalena Bach, John Skene, Albert Thomas, Mary Church Terrell and Charles Young.
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Between 1681 and 1684 he issued The Remaining Medical Works of & Dr . Thomas Willis & Englished by S . P ., Esq . There is a general dedication to Sir Theophilus Biddulph, signed by Pordage; and verses On the author's Medico-philosophical Discourses precede the first part.
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Burke's'A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1834'details the relationship between the Willys baronets and the Willis Fleming family of North Stoneham Park that descended from Thomas Willis thus :'The family of Willis claims descent from the eminent and ennobled family of Welles.
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He was introduced in a " Publisher's Notice " by publisher Thomas Willis White as " a gentleman of approved literary tastes and attainments . " His editorship was short-lived, however, as in August of the same year White removed him from the position, although his relationship with the journal continued.
