Thomas Wharton

was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Yorkshire, educated in Pemb. Hall in Cambridge, retired to Trin. Coll. in Oxon. before the Civil Wars broke out, being then Tutor or Governour to John Scrope the natural and only Son of Emanuel Earl of Sunderland, whom he begat on the body of his servant-maid named Martha Jeanes Daughter of John Jeanes a Taylor, living sometimes in the Parish of Turfield near to Great Wycomb in Bucks. When the rebellion began our author Wharton left the Univ. and retired to London, where he practised Physick under Dr. John Bathurst a noted Physitian of that place. After Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament in 1646, he retired to Trin. Coll. again, and as a member thereof was actually created Doctor of Physick in the beginning of the year 1647, by virtue of the letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliament Army. Afterwards he retired to London, was admitted a Candidate of the Coll, of Physitians the same year, Fellow thereof an. 1650, and for 5. or 6. years was chosen Censor of the said Coll, he being then a person of eminent esteem and practice in the City. He hath written,

Adenographia, seu descriptio Glandularum totius corporis. Lond. 1656. oct. Amstel. 1659. oct. In which book he hath given a more accurate description of the Glands of the whole body, than was formerly done. And whereas authors have ascribed to them very mean uses (as supporting the divisions by vessels, or imbibing the superfluous humidities of the body) he assigns them more noble and considerable uses, as the preparation and depuration of the Succus nutritius, with several other uses belonging to different Glands, as well for conservation of the individual, as propagation of the species. Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered ((d))((d)) Dr. Charles Goodall in his second pref. in his Historical account of the Colleges proceeding against Empricks . added to The Royal Coll. of Physitians of London founded and established by Law, &c. Lond. 1684. qu. the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares, by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth. He hath also given ((e))((e)) Ibid. an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences, and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae, how new Glands are often generated, as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery, Pancreas, &c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations. What else he hath written I find not, nor any thing besides of him, only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three, was, as I suppose, buried in the Church of S. Bottolph, 1673. situat and being without Aldersgate in London.