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Oct 14, 1597 Bristol, England, United Kingdom Died on 16 Oct 1677 (aged 80)
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About Francis Glisson
- Francis Glisson (1597 – 14 October 1677) was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects.
- He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets.
- An experiment he performed helped debunk the balloonist theory of muscle contraction by showing that when a muscle contracted under water, the water level did not rise, and thus no air or fluid could be entering the muscle.
- Glisson was born in Bristol and was educated in Rampisham, Dorset, and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
- Glisson is a well-known medical eponym; he was for forty years Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge.
- He died in London.
- The Glisson family can be traced to present-day Somerset.
