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	Thomas Willis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Willis (1621-1673) was an English physician who played an important part in the history of the science of anatomy and was a co-founder of the Royal Society (1662).
		Willis was the first natural philosopher to use the term "reflex action" to describe elemental acts of the nervous system.
		Willis proposed that the choroid plexus was responsible for the absorption of cerebrospinal fluid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Willis (484 words)

	ar04-858
		Willis and the State entered a negotiated plea agreement, whereby Willis pled guilty to the offense of "probation revocation." The plea agreement indicates that a sentence of twenty years' imprisonment with the imposition of five years suspended will be imposed.
		Willis argues that the decision in McCuen II, supra, governs this case and that this case is factually distinguishable from McCuen II because the theft-of-property offense was never mentioned in open court.
		Willis appeared in open court and pled guilty to the charge of "probation revocation" and was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment with the imposition of five of those years suspended.
	courts.state.ar.us /opinions/2005a/20050316/ar04-858.html (1886 words)

	Thomas Willis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Willis was the first to number the (Any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem) cranial nerves in the order in which they are now usually enumerated by anatomists.
		He seems to have recognized the communication of the convoluted surface of the brain and that between the lateral cavities beneath the (An arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies) fornix.
		Willis proposed that the (A vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure) choroid plexus was responsible for the absorption of (Clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord) cerebrospinal fluid.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_Willis.htm (320 words)

	Thomas Willis - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Willis (1621-1673) was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of the science of anatomy and was a co-founder of the Royal Society (1662).
		The "circle of Willis", a part of the brain, was his discovery.
		In the cerebellum he remarks the arborescent arrangement of the white and grey matter, and gives a good account of the internal carotids, and the communications which they make with the branches of the basilar artery.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Thomas_Willis (404 words)

	THOMAS WILLIS - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS WILLIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Willis was admired for his piety and charity, for his deep insight into natural and experimental philosophy, anatomy and chemistry, and for the elegance and purity of his Latin style.
		Among his writings were Cerebri anatome neroorumgue descriptio el usus (1664), in which he described what is still known, in the anatomy of the brain, as the circle of Willis, and Pharmaceutice rationalis (1674), in which he characterized diabetes mellitus.
		Browne Willis (1682-1760), the antiquarian, author of three volumes of Surveys of the cathedrals of England, was his grandson.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIS_THOMAS.htm (884 words)

	All in the Mind: 8 May 2004 - Thomas Willis: The Soul Made Flesh
		Willis was born in the year that Robert Burton penned his famous treatise, The Anatomy of Melancholy, which you heard about on the show a couple of weeks ago, and he went on to become one of the founders of the Royal Society in Britain.
		What Thomas Willis did for starters was he figured out the first accurate anatomy of the brain, basically drew the first correct map of this strange continent that we call the brain.
		I mean Thomas Willis for him there was no difference between philosophy, religion, science, medicine, it was all of a piece and we’re starting to kind of move back to a conciliance as it were, we have still have so far to go though I mean particularly if you say for example with consciousness.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/stories/s1101281.htm (3907 words)

	CarlZimmer.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Willis eventually fared surprisingly well, despite the political and religious upheaval of the Civil War in the 1640s, during which time the university at Oxford languished, both his parents died and his medical studies were interrupted.
		Petty and Willis gained some notoriety in 1650 from the strange case of Anne Green, who caused a certain frisson locally when she was resuscitated after being hanged in December—possibly one of the rare examples of the benefit of Oxford's hypothermia (Feindel, 1962a).
		Feindel W. The influence of Thomas Willis (1621–1675) on neurology and psychiatry on the continent.
	www.carlzimmer.com /soul_reviews_brain.html (2688 words)

	Thomas D. Willis Papers
		Willis and Walter Wilson were among those randomly chosen to represent their company at court martial, but after experiencing the deplorable conditions inside the state prison in which they were to be placed if convicted, they relented and agreed to accept Rosecrans' offer.
		Willis was waylaid with diarrhea during most of the Chickamauga Campaign, and in October, he was assigned to safe guard the house of a Unionist family in the Sequatchie Valley while several companies of the 15th Cavalry were sent to relieve Burnside at Knoxville.
		Willis' mother seems to have been a source of both joy and grief, as she urged him to resign his position (which he would not if he could, he wrote) or nagged him to take a furlough home (which he also wished to avoid).
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Schoff/UZ/Willis.html (1053 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Also Thomas Willis, the father was a small farmer who became the steward of the manor of Great Bedwyn.
		Willis kept the chair until his death, even though he was in London during the last eight years.
		Willis had a secret prescription, composed of solutions of iron and sulfur, which he used throughout his career and refused to divulge.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/willis.html (1070 words)

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		Thomas had died before the 1881 census as his wife is shown as a widow.
		Thomas was baptised at Birkin Parish Church on the 24 July 1741, married there on 3 Dec 1780 and was buried there on the 22 June 1809.
		An extract from the bond and allegation states that Thomas Heptenstall of West Haddlesey, parish of Birkin, farmer, aged 35, bachelor, is to marry Elizabeth Sainter of West Haddlesey, age 30, widow at Birkin Parish Chush.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/MauriceHemingway/Hem/g003.html (574 words)

	Thomas Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He described what was later known as the "circle of Willis", a vascular complex at the base of the brain, and described its function.
		Willis attempted to correlate the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry with clinical findings in neuropathology.
		He was a member of the "iatrochemistry school", which believed that chemistry was the basis of human function, rather than mechanics, as was the main belief of that time.
	www.cerebromente.org.br /n06/historia/willis_i.htm (242 words)

	Thomas Willis (www.whonamedit.com)
		Thomas Willis was one of the greatest men in 17th century medicine.
		Willis describes the sweetish flavour of urine in diabetes mellitus, differentiating between it and diabetes insipidus.
		Willis’ successes brought upon him the animosity and envy of many of his colleagues, having to suffer great harassments, something that was probably a cause for his premature death of pleurisy in London in 1675, at the age of 54.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/336.html (2360 words)

	Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: A portrait in history: Dr Thomas Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Willis (1621-1675) was born in Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire and made seminal contributions to neurology and neuroanatomy in the 17th century, including his famous arterial circle.
		Willis devoted himself to the study of neuroanatomy and to the opportunity of "opening heads" and examining their contents.
		Willis' seventh cranial nerve was the combined facial-vestibulocochlear, his eighth the combined glossopharyngeal-vagus-accessory, and his ninth the hypoglossal.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3725/is_199905/ai_n8842299 (446 words)

	Thomas Willis: the first paediatric neurologist? -- Williams and Sunderland 85 (6): 506 -- Archives of Disease in ...
		Thomas Willis (1621-75) the man (fig 1) is often overshadowed by his medical discoveries.
		Willis illustrates the difficulty in determining causes of neurological impairment.
		Willis T. An essay of the pathology of the brain and nervous stock in which convulsive disease are treated of.
	adc.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/85/6/506 (2776 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : Thomas Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Willis was born in Isleworth, where his father, also Thomas lived and worked as a schoolmaster.
		They appear to have returned to England in 1641 and Thomas Junior may have gone to Oxford where in October 1646, by the order of General Sir Thomas Fairfax he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by St John's College.
		Willis was duly ejected but apparently now conforming he was appointed rector of Dunton in Buckinghamshire in 1663, Doctor of divinity at Oxford and chaplain in ordinary to the King in 1670 and, in 1671 vicar of Kingston upon Thames where he remained for the next 21 years.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=241 (287 words)

	Thomas C. Willis, 76; was longtime Tribune music critic
		Willis was involved in Chicago's musical life on both sides of the footlights over the decades.
		Willis was also the guiding light behind Cameo Opera, a chamber ensemble he organized while enrolled at Northwestern.
		Willis is survived by his wife, Diane; a son, Chris; two daughters, Deborah and Claire; two stepsons, Christian and Erik Holtje, and his former wife, Millie.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xwillis30.html (316 words)

	Cooke & Early New England
		Judeth Willis the daughter of Nathanael Willis was borne June the 14th Anno Domini 1641.
		Mary Willis the daughter of Nathanaell Willis was borne the 14th of Aprill Anno.
		Thomas WILLIS was born on 15 Aug 1710 in Boston, MA.
	www.mayflowerfamilies.com /cooke/d47.htm (4646 words)

	THOMAS Family History
		The THOMAS surname is common throughout the United States and there were many branches in the early years of the southern states as well.
		Neighbors of John Thomas in the 1830 Alabama Census were Henry H. Wheeler, whose daughter Amanda married James Avery Thomas, son of John, and John, Joseph and William Henson.
		Sarah Gilmore Thomas remembered riding horseback with her baby Mary in her lap and son John behind her to visit her sister-in-law Mandy (Amanda Wheeler) Thomas, whose daughter Kate married John Morris" "Simeon and Sarah lived in a dog-trot house, two rooms and a porch across the front; later a kitchen was added.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/nirvana/621/thomas.htm (2241 words)

	Encyclopedia: Thomas Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Westminster is the area located immediately to the west of the ancient City of London, in the centre of the wider conurbation of London.
		The basilar artery is one of the arteries which the brain supplies with oxygen-rich blood.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Willis (1368 words)

	AllRefer.com - Thomas Willis (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He became professor at Oxford Univ. in 1660 and in 1666 established a practice in London.
		An authority on the brain and the nervous system, he discovered the 11th cranial nerve and a circle of arteries at the base of the brain (the circle of Willis).
		His works, written in Latin, include Of the Anatomy of the Brain, illustrated by Sir Christopher Wren, published in 1664, and translated in The Remaining Medical Works … of Doctor Thomas Willis (1681).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Willis-T.html (196 words)

	JEFFLINE Forum - July 2004: "Jesuit's Powder" or Cinchona and Colonialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Willis, frontispiece portrait, drawn and engraved by D. Loggan, 1679.
		The first English author to write on cinchona was Thomas Willis, who in 1679 asserted that it did not cure the fever but was a highly effective palliative.
		Willis (1621-1675) was a leading researcher in the new science of medicine and has numerous discoveries named after him (Willis' Disease I and II, Willis' Glands, Willis' Nerve, Willis' Cord, etc.).
	jeffline.tju.edu /Education/forum/04/07/articles/history.html (941 words)

	Descendants of Thomas WILLIS - RIN:7806 - Fifth Generation
		John, Thomas) was born on 18 Mar 1833 in New York.
		Willie WILLIS - RIN:41107 was born on 15 Nov 1860 in Union Mills, La Porte County, Indiana.
		John, Thomas) was born in 1835 in New York.
	www.mouldfamily.com /willis/pekg05.htm (918 words)

	Thomas Willis, An Essay of the Physiology of the Brain and Nervous Stock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Willis, An Essay of the Physiology of the Brain and Nervous Stock
		Thomas Willis, An Essay of the Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock (1681), p.
		Willis "systematically attempted to convert diseases thought to be caused by the blood, viscera, or even supernatural agents, into diseases of the nervous system" (Frank 141).
	www.engl.virginia.edu /enec981/dictionary/03willisK1.html (171 words)

	The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Library November 1998
		Thomas Willis (1621-1675) was one of the foremost medical figures of the seventeenth century.
		Conversant with William Harvey's discoveries on the circulation of the blood, Willis applied the new doctrine to circulation in the brain.
		Although Willis was not the first to describe the circle, he was the first to illustrate it clearly and the first to provide a comprehensive description of its physiological significance.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /development/news/halcyon/nov98/article3.htm (1068 words)

	New Statesman (1996): All in the head.(Books)(Soul Made Flesh: Thomas Willis, The English Civil War and the Mapping of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soul Made Flesh: Thomas Willis, the English civil war and the mapping of the mind
		But this "turbulent spirit" was so impressed by the lectures of the physician Thomas Willis that he wrote hundreds of pages describing the anatomy of brains and nerves.
		Unlike many of his predecessors, Willis believed that the soul lies not in the...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:118678259&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (205 words)

	The Stroke Association - The Thomas Willis Award - 2003
		Warlow is scheduled to receive the award and deliver the prestigious Willis Lecture today at the American Stroke Association's 28th International Stroke Conference.
		The Thomas Willis Award honors Dr. Willis (1621-1675), who is credited with providing the first detailed description of the brain stem, cerebellum and ventricles along with extensive hypotheses about their functions.
		The Willis Award is one of four being announced at the meeting, sponsored by the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association.
	www.stroke.org.uk /media_centre/press_releases/the_thomas.html (610 words)

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