Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham (1624–89) rejected the view that the diseased state is an exception to natural law.

1669 2001

Thomas Sydenham, the seventeenth-century physician known as the ‘English Hippocrates’, wrote, ‘Disease is nothing else but an attempt of the body to rid itself of morbific matter’.

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

The most impressive presentation of the ontological point of view came from Thomas Sydenham (1624-89).

HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

An English physician named Thomas Sydenham first described this form of the disease in 1686, so that it is usually called Sydenham's chorea.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

Hippocratic collection was the necessary and acknowledged basis for the work of the greatest of modern clinical observers, Thomas Sydenham, and the teaching of Hippocrates and of his school is the substantial basis of instruction in the wards of a modern hospital.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Unfortunately, Thomas Sydenham, whose prestige in England was great and whose works on fevers were influential, paid scant tribute to cinchona bark (quinine) which was known but thought of, even by Sydenham, as only an alleged curative offering too radical a challenge to current techniques.

Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

Aware that many of his fellow physicians tended to overemphasize theory Thomas Sydenham (1624-89), who received his doctorate of medicine from Cambridge University, recommended personal experience drawn from close observation.

Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

A model of this sort arose in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), who took men back to Hippocrates, just as Harvey had led them back to Galen.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

Thomas Sydenham (1624-89), during this period laid the foundations of modern medical study, and the microscope was applied to the study of organic forms.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

Thomas Sydenham, the physician, migrated from Wadham to fellowships at All Souls '.

The Charm of Oxford 1892