SYDENHAM EPIDEMIC.

Thomas Sydenham.

T Sydenham is undoubtedly the most celebrated British physician. He has been considered the father of English medicine and the English equivalent of Hippocrates.1 Sydenham was born on September 1624 in Wynford Eagle, Dorset. He joined Magdalene Hall, Oxford at the age of e ighteen to study m e d i c i n e . H o w e v e r there was an interruption in his studies because o f h i s p a r t i c i p...

Sydenham on Hysteria

This historical essay outlines early ideas and clinical accounts of hysteria. It reproduces verbatim parts of a remarkable text of Thomas Sydenham. This provides the most detailed description of hysterical symptoms, contemporary treatment and particularly Sydenham’s opinions about the nature of the disorder. His portrayal is compared to later and modern concepts and classification. © 2016 S. Ka...

A claim to fame: Thomas Sydenham.

Language Impairment in Adolescents With Sydenham Chorea.

BACKGROUND Neuropsychiatric comorbidities are frequent in Sydenham chorea. However, cognitive impairment in Sydenham chorea has not been sufficiently described. The objective of this study was to evaluate expressive and receptive language deficits in adolescents with Sydenham chorea. METHODS Twenty patients with Sydenham chorea were compared with 20 patients with rheumatic fever without chore...

Sydenham chorea: MR manifestations in two cases.

The acute onset of a unilateral choreiform movement disorder in a child with a recently documented febrile illness or streptococcal pharyngitis is suggestive of Sydenham chorea. The MR manifestations of two clinically corroborated cases of Sydenham chorea are summarized . Increased signal intensity in the corpus striatum contralateral to the patients ' symptomatic side was observed on T2-weight...