Thomas Sydenham
English physician (1624-1689) · United Kingdom · On the map · Doctors · Died at 65
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 chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance.
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To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."
