WHARTON, Thomas (1614 – 1673)
1614 – 1673
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown artist; Oil on canvas painting, located in the Collection of the Royal College of Physicians, London · Art UK , Thomas Wharton (1614–1673) by unknown artist · Public domain
1656 CE
#1116
Adenographia: sive, glandularum totius corporis descriptio.
Wharton described the duct of the submaxillary salivary gland (“Wharton’s duct”). He described the thyroid more accurately than his predecessors, naming it. He also described “Wharton’s j…
1656 CE
#13071
Musaeum Tradescantianum: Or, a collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.
Catalogue of the first natural museum in England, the collection made by John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, and left by John Tradescant the Younger to Elias Ashmole, who, along with Thomas Wharton, helped the …