NEUROwords Dr. Thomas Willis' famous eponym: the circle of Willis.
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Thomas Willis is considered one of the greatest neuroanatomists of all time. His name is usually associated with the circle of Willis, an anastomotic circle at the base of the brain, but his work also formed the foundation of basic neuroanatomical description and nomenclature, and comparative neuroanatomy. He was born on 27 January 1621 at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, the son of a farmer who lost his life at the siege of Oxford during the Civil War. Young Thomas was educated in Oxford, at Christ Church College in 1639 (Figure 1). He obtained his medical degree in 1646. His studies were interrupted by the Civil War of 1641-1647 and the siege of Oxford, when he served as a student volunteer with the Royalist army. Willis became a member of an informal group of experimental scientists –the Virtuosi– who, together with the Virtuosi of London were the forerunners of the Royal Society. He was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford in 1660 and, on moving to London in 1666, acquired the largest fashionable practice of his day. He died of pleurisy in 1675 in London at age 54 and is buried in Westminster Abbey (1-5).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the history of the neurosciences
دوره 14 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005