When I use a word . . . . Sydenham Societies

Thomas SydenhamThomas Sydenham (1624-89) was an English physician. He took the degree of bachelor of medicine in 1648, but did not precede it with an arts degree, which made it unacceptable. He later qualified properly in 1663 by obtaining the licentiateship of the College of Physicians after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Although he had been a supporter of Oliver Cromwell, he escaped mention in The Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion of August 1660, which included the names of those who were not pardoned by Charles II and were therefore condemned to death.Sydenham espoused Hippocratic and Helmontian approaches to clinical practice. He is regarded as the father of clinical medicine and has been called the English Hippocrates. He is perhaps best known for his 1696 description of a form of chorea that now bears his name and is also known as St Vitus’s dance.1The…
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