Thomas Willis's Oxford Lectures

Willis's Oxford lectures

KENNETH DEWHURST, Willis's Oxford lectures, Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. x, 182, illus., £9.00. In 1660, Thomas Willis, then aged thirty-nine, was appointed the fourth Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford. Provision for the chair had been made in the will of Sir William Sedley in 1618. Although the professor was expected to discourse on Aristotelian physics, Willi...

A gift from Oxford: the Osler-Thomas connection.

In June 1926, Dr. Henry M. Thomas Jr. ("Hal") received as a gift from Grace Osler in Oxford an Einhorn Duodenal Bucket Set that had belonged to Sir William Osler. The Thomases were a distinguished multigenerational physician family of Baltimore with high educational standards and major accomplishments in medicine and medical education. An extraordinary number of the Thomas women earned doctorat...

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