Francis Glisson

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Francis Glisson

Francis Glisson (* 1596 ? In Rampisham , Dorset , † October 14, 1677 in London ) was an English anatomist and physiologist .

Life

Francis Glisson studied medicine at the University of Cambridge from 1617 , received his doctorate there in 1634 and worked there from 1636 as a professor ( Regius Professor of Physic ). As a member of the College of Physicians , he came to London in 1634, where he was appointed Professor of Anatomy. Francis Glisson died as President of the College in London in 1677 at the age of 80.

Act

Glisson taught in his Tractatus de natura substantiae energetica the irritability of the living fiber and is to this extent to be regarded as the originator of the newer physiology . Later on, John Brown (1735–1788) ( Brownianism ) and Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742) built on it. In his Anatomia hepatis Glisson first described the Glisson triad , which was later named after him .

He described rickets and the Glisson loop (or Glisson loop ) is named after him, which he introduced in 1650 and which is attached as a padded strap to the chin and the back of the head and connected to the bed rail or a special bracket by pulling (traction) the cervical spine stretches and relieves pressure (e.g. when dislocated).

In 1677 Glisson developed the first coherent three-dimensional color body, the forerunner of all color systems of the modern age.

Fonts

  • De Rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo "the rickets" dicitur, tractatus, opera primo ac potissimum Francisci Glissonii, conscriptus, adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate et Ahasuero Regemortero . L. Sadler and R. Beaumont, London 1650 (digitized version)
  • Tractatus de natura substantiae energetica. London 1672.
  • Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. London 1677.
  • Anatomia hepatis. London 1654; The Hague 1681.
  • Complete Works. Suffering 1691.

literature

  • Wilfried Witte: Cod liver oil, rhubarb and port wine are said to help with rickets. The English scholar Francis Glisson was the first to describe rickets 350 years ago. In: Doctors newspaper . December 6, 2000.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Glisson, Francis. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 497.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Bröer , Francis Glisson , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Doctors' Lexicon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition CH Beck Munich 1995, p. 156; 2nd edition Springer Heidelberg, Berlin et.al. 2001, p. 133; 3rd edition. Springer Heidelberg, Berlin et.al. 2006, p. 139, print version ISBN 978-3540-29584-6 and online version ISBN 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  2. ↑ Hans Killian : There is only God behind us. Sub umbra dei. A surgeon remembers. Kindler, Munich 1957; here: Licensed edition as Herder paperback (= Herder library. Volume 279). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-451-01779-2 , p. 220 f.
  3. ^ John Gage: Cultural history of color: from antiquity to the present, Ravensburger Bucherverl., 1997 ISBN 3-473-48387-7 , pp. 166–167

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personal data
SURNAME Glisson, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English anatomist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH Rampisham , Dorset
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1677
Place of death London