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  • By the mid-17th century, English physician Thomas Willis and his accomplice, Christopher Wren, were drawing the brain in unprecedented detail, as a three-dimensional whole.

    The human brain unravelled Ian Sample 2010

  • Thomas Willis in 1683 wrote up treating a furious maid by ordering that she be carried out of doors by women in the middle of the night, and put into a Boat, and her Cloths being pulld off, and she tyed fast with a Cord, should be drenched in the depths of the Riverwith strict instructions that she might not be stifled in the Water.34

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Thomas Willis in 1683 wrote up treating a furious maid by ordering that she be carried out of doors by women in the middle of the night, and put into a Boat, and her Cloths being pulld off, and she tyed fast with a Cord, should be drenched in the depths of the Riverwith strict instructions that she might not be stifled in the Water.34

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Thomas Willis in 1683 wrote up treating a furious maid by ordering that she be carried out of doors by women in the middle of the night, and put into a Boat, and her Cloths being pulld off, and she tyed fast with a Cord, should be drenched in the depths of the Riverwith strict instructions that she might not be stifled in the Water.34

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • We're talking about your dad, Claude, your brother, Thomas Willis, killed by this man Douglas Williams in this horrible incident.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2003 2003

  • Another leading figure in the iatrochemical school, Thomas Willis (1621-75), was an Englishman.

    Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

  • Wharton (1614-73; glands) and Thomas Willis (1621 -- 75; brain); the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • (Mainz, 1491), vol. 3 of John Ray's "Historia Plantarum" (London, 1704), and Thomas Willis '"Cerebri anatome" (London, 1664).

    Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 George A. Stephen 1907

  • The doctrines of Sylvius spread widely over the continent, but were not generally accepted in England until modified by Thomas Willis (1622-1675), whose name, like that of Sylvius, is perpetuated by a structure in the brain named after him, the circle of Willis.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

  • [850] By Thomas Willis, M.D. It was published in 1672.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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