Quotes by Thomas Willis

• Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
• 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.
• Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
• 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 great and liberal ingenuity or wit.