{{Short description|British doctor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use British English|date=April 2012}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Francis Glisson |image =Francis Glisson.jpg |image_size =250px |caption = Francis Glisson |birth_date = 1597 |birth_place = Bristol, England |death_date = 14 October 1677 |death_place = London, England |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Physician |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Fibrous capsule of Glisson |author_abbrev_bot =|author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Francis Glisson''' (1597<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/glisson-francis|title=GLISSON, Francis | British History Online}}</ref> – 14 October 1677<ref>Guido Giglioni, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10819 'Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)'], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 31 December 2008</ref>) was an English 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 and Caius College, Cambridge.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=GLS617F|name=Glisson, Francis}}</ref> Glisson is a well-known medical eponym; he was for forty years Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He spent his later years in Covent Garden<ref>{{cite web |title=Bedford Street and Chandos Place Area: Bedford Street Pages 253-263 Survey of London: Volume 36, Covent Garden. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp253-263 |website=British History Online |publisher=LCC 1970 |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref> and died in London. The Glisson family can be traced to present-day Somerset.
==See also== * Fibrous capsule of Glisson
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