1. Thomas Sydenham was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.
11 Facts About Thomas Sydenham
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Thomas Sydenham was born at Wynford Eagle in Dorset, where his father was a gentleman of property.
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At the age of eighteen Thomas Sydenham attended Magdalen Hall, Oxford; after a short period his college studies appear to have been interrupted, and he served for a time as an officer in the Parliamentarian army during the Civil War.
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Thomas Sydenham completed his Oxford course in 1648, graduating as bachelor of medicine, and about the same time he was elected a fellow of All Souls College.
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Thomas Sydenham seems to have been distrusted by some members of the faculty because he was an innovator and something of a plain-dealer.
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Thomas Sydenham attracted to his support some of the most discriminating men of his time, such as Boyle and John Locke.
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Thomas Sydenham's collected writings occupy about 600 pages 8vo, in the Latin, translated into that language by various scholars.
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Thomas Sydenham is indeed famous because he inaugurated a new method and a better ethics of practice, the worth and diffusive influence of which did not become obvious until a good many years afterwards.
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In 1679, Thomas Sydenham gave Whooping cough the name pertussis, meaning a violent cough of any type.
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In both departments of nosology, the acute and the chronic, Thomas Sydenham contributed largely to the natural history by his own accurate observation and philosophical comparison of case with case and type with type.
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Thomas Sydenham is buried in St James's Church, Piccadilly, where a mural slab was put up by the College of Physicians in 1810.