Francis Glisson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Glisson

British doctor

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1597

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1677

Profession: university teacher, physiologist, anatomist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.