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patient. He passed by all authority but one 

 " the divine old man Hippocrates/' whose medi- 

 cine rested also on observation. He, first in 

 England, " attempted to arrive at general laws 

 about the prevalence .and the course and the 

 treatment of disease from clinical observation." 

 He was essentially a physician occupied in diag- 

 nosis, treatment and prognosis. When he was 

 but twenty-five years old, he began to suffer 

 from gout, and his personal experience enabled 

 him to write a classic on this disease, which is 

 even now unsurpassed. 



Francis Glisson, like Sydenham, was essentially 

 English in his upbringing, and did not owe any- 

 thing to foreign education. His work on the 

 liver has made " Glisson's capsule " known to 

 every medical student, and he wrote an authori- 

 tative book on rickets. He, like Harvey, was 

 educated at Gonville and Caius College, and, in 

 1636, became regius professor of physic at Cam- 

 bridge, 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 



