The circle of Willis.
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On St Martin’s Day (November 11), volleys of gunpowder explosions disturb the quiet of Fenny Stratford, a small country town midway between Oxford and Cambridge close to Stony Stratford (1). The explosions are part of a curious celebration, which has taken place every year since 1734. The celebration consists of three events. The first is a sermon in the parish church for which the invited speaker receives the fee of one guinea. The next event is a turkey dinner at the Bull, the inn next door, where each attendee must pay his own alcoholic burden without compulsory aid from his companions (2). The third event is the firing by the town dignitaries of the “Fenny poppers,” six muglike cannonades, forged from gunmetal, each weighing about 20 pounds and measuring 7 inches high with a 3⁄4-inch bore and 6 inches deep. The poppers are filled with a quarter pound of gunpowder, plugged with wellrammed newspaper, lined up in a protective trench, and fired at 12 noon, 2 PM, and 4 PM using a metal rod made red-hot in the church furnace. So is remembered in inimitable English fashion the death on St Martin’s day in 1675 of Thomas Willis, the famous anatomist-physician and professor of natural philosophy at Oxford. (This, probably unique among medical memorials, was conceived by Browne Willis, Thomas Willis’s grandson, a scholar and antiquarian of repute, as a monument to his grandfather [1] [Stephen Huckle, personal communication, 1996]. The rent from houses left in the will of Browne Willis in 1760 pays for the strange custom.) Willis of course is famous for the arterial anatomosis at the base of the brain that bears his name. In medical and scientific research, originality of theme and content is of major importance. Fame is often derived from having a clinical sign, disease, or anatomic structure
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عنوان ژورنال:
- AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
دوره 18 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997