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Francis Glisson, like Sydenham, was essen- 

 tially English in his upbringing, and did not 

 owe anything to foreign education. His work 

 on the liver has made "Glisson's capsule" 

 known to every medical student, and he wrote 

 an authoritative book on rickets. He, like 

 Harvey, was educated at Gonville and Caius 

 College, and, in 1636, became Regius Professor 

 of physic at Cambridge, but the greater part 

 of his life he spent at Colchester. We must 

 perforce pass by the fashionable Thomas 

 Willis and his more capable assistant Richard 

 Lower, with Sir George Ent, and others. 



The invention of the microscope mentioned 

 above gave a great impetus to the study of 

 the anatomical structure of plants and later of 

 animals; and in relation to this we must not 

 overlook the work of Nehemiah Grew (1641- 

 1712) who, with the Italian Malpighi, may be 

 considered a co-founder of the science of plant- 

 anatomy. He was the son of a clergyman, 

 who, as clergymen were apt to do in those 

 days, got into trouble under the Act of 

 Uniformity. 



Nehemiah studied at Pembroke Hall, Cam- 



