Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Daniel Whistler, M.D., Fellow of Merton College, whose inaugural dissertation on Rickets in 1645 contains the earliest printed account of that disease. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry, 1648-57, and held several offices at the College of Physicians, being elected President in 1683. He was one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society. Dr. Munk, in his “Roll of the Royal College of Physicians,” speaks very unfavourably of Whistler, and says that he defrauded the college. He died May 11th, 1684.
Per L&M Companion:
(1619 - 1684) Physician; author of the first book on Rickets, [Leiden: 1645, rpr. London: 1684; antedating the full description in the work of Francis Glisson (1597-1677), London:1650] Gresham Professor of Geometry 1648-57; an original F.R.S. He had been a naval doctor in the First Dutch War, and had accompanied Whitelock on his embassy to Sweden 1653-4. He married a rich widow in 1657 (mother of Anthony Lowther) and according to Aubrey earned L. 1,000 by his practice, but when he died (in the midst of his term as President of the Royal College) it was discovered he was heavily in debt and had embezzled the College’s funds. Evelyn thought him ‘the most facetious [amusing] man in nature.’
Biography from the Royal College of Physicians:-
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/munk_details.asp?ID=5094