Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (died 1689)

Thomas Sydenham

English physician (1624–1689)

Thomas Sydenham 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…