Thomas Willis
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Thomas Willis FRS was an English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry, and was a founding member of the Royal Society.
Willis in 1667
Frontispiece to Willis's 1663 Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae – quarum prior agit de fermentatione, engraved and published by Gerbrandus Schagen in Amsterdam
Neurology
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Neurology is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and th
Thomas Willis
…Thomas Willis FRS (27 January 1621 – 11 November 1675) was an English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry, and was a founding member of the Royal Society. Willis was born on his parents' farm in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, where his father held…
A network of dendrites from neurons in a hippocampus
Polish neurologist Edward Flatau greatly influenced the developing field of neurology. He published a human brain atlas in 1894 and wrote a fundamental book on migraines in 1912.
Jean-Martin Charcot is considered one of the fathers of neurology.