He delivered the Harveian oration at the College of Physicians, in which, as in his lectures, he speaks reverently of William Harvey.
[2] Terne died at his house in Lime Street, London, on 1 December 1673, and was buried in St. Andrew's Undershaft.
[2] The only writings of Terne that were printed were some Latin verses on Christopher Bennet which are placed below his portrait in the Theatrum Tabidorum.
The lectures, which are dated 1656, begin with an account of the skin, going on to the deeper parts, and were delivered contemporaneously with the dissection of a body on the table.
Several volumes of notes of his medical reading are preserved in the same collection, and an essay entitled 'An respiratio inserviat nutritioni?