1642-1651

English Civil War, with King Charles I settled in Christ Church College in Oxford, accompanied by the Royal Physician William Harvey, in November 1642. The war interrupted the medical training of Thomas Willis at Oxford. A royalist, he began medical training in 1646, and was rewarded for his loyalty with his bachelor of medicine after only six months of study, thereupon beginning his practice in the villages and marketplaces of Oxfordshire (Arráez-Aybar).