To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but i…

- Thomas Willis

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness t…

- Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

- Thomas Willis

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

- Thomas Willis

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a g…

- Thomas Willis