Thomas Willis (1621-1675) was an English doctor and founding member of the Royal Society. In his pioneering work on neurology, a term he coined, he discovered the Circle of Willis, a circle of arteries at the base of the brain. He also coined the term mellitus in diabetes mellitus. Line engraving by George Vertue, 1742, after David Loggan. Colorized.

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