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See also:WILLIS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1621-1675) , See also:English anatomist and physician, was See also:born at See also:Great Bedwin, See also:Wiltshire, on the 27th of See also:January 1621. He studied at See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; and when that See also:city was garrisoned for the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king he See also:bore arms for the Royalists. He took the degree of See also:bachelor of See also:medicine in 1646, and applied himself to the practice of his profession. In 166o, shortly after the Restoration, he became Sedleian See also:professor of natural See also:philosophy in See also:place of Dr See also:Joshua See also:Cross, who was ejected, and the same See also:year he took the degree of See also:doctor of physic. In 1664 he discovered the medicinal See also:spring at Astrop, near See also:Brackley in See also:Northamptonshire. He was one of the first members of the Royal Society, and was elected an honorary See also:fellow of the Royal See also:College of Physicians in 1664. In 1666, after the See also:fire of See also:London, he took a See also:house in St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's See also:Lane, and there rapidly acquired an extensive practice, his reputation and skill marking him out as one of the first physicians of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. He died in St Martin's Lane on the 1 1t11 of See also:November 1675 and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
Willis was admired for his piety and charity, for his deep insight into natural and experimental philosophy, See also:anatomy and See also:chemistry, and for the elegance and purity of his Latin See also:style. Among hiswritings were Cerebri anatome nervorumque descriptio et usus (1664), in which he described what is still known, in the anatomy of the See also:brain, as the circle of Willis, and Pharmaceutice rationalis (1674), in which he characterized See also:diabetes See also:mellitus. He wrote in English A See also:Plain and Easy Method for Preserving those that are Well from the Infection of the See also:Plague, and for Curing such as are Infected. His Latin See also:works were printed in two vols. 4to at See also:Geneva in 1676, and at See also:Amsterdam in 1682. See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne Willis (1682-1760), the antiquarian, author of three volumes of Surveys of the cathedrals of See also:England, was his See also:grandson.
See Munk, See also:Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, London (2nd ed., vol. i., London, 1878).
End of Article: WILLIS, THOMAS (1621-1675)
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