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Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

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Thomas Willis
Age: 54 †
Born: 1621
Born: January 27
Died: 1675
Died: November 11
Anatomist
Neurologist
Physician
Physiologist
Great Bedwyn
Wiltshire
Thomas Willisius
Diabetes
Melancholy
Caused

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