Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance. To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."

Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham in a 1689 portrait by Mary Beale.
Born(1624-09-10)10 September 1624
Died29 December 1689(1689-12-29) (aged 65)
Pall Mall, London, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materAll Souls College, Oxford (MB, 1648)
Pembroke College, Cambridge (MD, 1676)
Known forClinical medicine
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
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