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Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson
Born 1597 Died 14 October 1677 Nationality British Known for Fibrous capsule of Glisson Scientific career Fields physician
Francis Glisson (1597[1] [2] 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 .[3] 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.
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