Thomas Sydenham.

Selected Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D., with a Short Biography

ness to see a celebrated " Dr. Robinson," who had made a special study of his disease. The patient started out from London on what was in those days a long and difficult journey. Some time afterwards Sydenham met him on his return to London; and after he had failed .to find the imaginary " Dr. Robinson." " Are you better? " enquired Sydenham. " Yes," replied the patient I am now quite well; but...

An Examination of the Skulls in the Catacombs of Paris.

2I. LATHAM, R. G. In: The works of Thomas Sydenham translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill with a life of the author by R. G. Latham, 2 vols., London Sydenham Society, i848-50. 22. LIEBERT, HERMAN, Personal communication. 23. MCHENRY, LAWRENCE C., Jr., Dr. Samuel Johnson's medical biographies, J. Hist. Med., 1959, 14, 289-31 0. 24. SamuelJohnson's medical illness andhis 'Aegri Epheme...

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

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...

The Creation of the English Hippocrates

This article examines the process by which the London physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) rose to fame as the English Hippocrates in the late seventeenth century. It provides a survey of the evidence for the establishment of Sydenham's reputation from his own writings, his professional relations, and the writings of his supporters and detractors. These sources reveal that in the first decades o...