1. Thomas Muffet was an English naturalist and physician.
13 Facts About Thomas Muffet
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Thomas Muffet is best known his study of insects and arthropods in regard to medicine, his support of the Paracelsian system of medicine, and his emphasis on the importance of experience over reputation in the field of medicine.
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Thomas Muffet was an Anti-papist due to his Puritan beliefs.
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Thomas Muffet was born in 1553 as the second son to haberdasher Thomas Moffet, in Shoreditch, London.
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Thomas Muffet graduated in 1573, when he received his bachelor's degree.
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In Spring 1578 Thomas Muffet boarded with Felix Platter, chief physician of Basel, where he adopted the Paracelsian system of medicine.
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In 1579, Thomas Muffet was awarded a doctorate in medicine from Basel University.
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The year after receiving his MD, in 1580, Thomas Muffet studied silkworm anatomy in Italy before finally returning to England.
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Two years later, in 1584, Thomas Muffet finished his De jure et praestantia chemicorum medicamentorum.
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That same year, Thomas Muffet wrote a letter attacking the London College of Physicians for Papist influences through the lens of his own Puritan beliefs.
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Later in 1588, Thomas Muffet published his Nosomantica Hippocratea, advocating support for the work and writings of Hippocrates.
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Thomas Muffet first studied silkworms while working in Italy, beginning his continued fascination with arthropods in general, particularly spiders.
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Thomas Muffet edited and expanded on the work Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum, an illustrated guide to the classification and lives of insects.