Francis Glisson

Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson
Born	1597 Bristol
Died	14 October 1677 London
Nationality	British
Known for	Fibrous capsule of Glisson
Scientific career
Fields	physician

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.

See also

• Fibrous capsule of Glisson

External links

• doctor/2329 at Who Named It?