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    Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard...
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  • Sydenham's chorea, also known as rheumatic chorea, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face,...
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  • Sydenham may refer to: Sydenham, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney Sydenham railway station, Sydney Sydenham, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Sydenham...
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    ambergris, musk and nutmeg".: 45  In the 1660s English physician Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689) popularized a proprietary opium tincture that he also named...
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  • 17th-century English physician Thomas Sydenham, known as the father of English medicine or "the English Hippocrates." Sydenham developed the field of nosology...
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    example of European use of this procedure was described in 1686 by Thomas Sydenham, who, to cure iliac passion, prescribed first bleeding, followed by...
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    laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned "father of English medicine" or "English Hippocrates"...
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    on gout, A Treatise of the Gout, or Joint Evil, in 1669. In 1683, Thomas Sydenham, an English physician, described its occurrence in the early hours...
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    19th-century English surgeon Thomas Inman to date from the 17th-century English physician Thomas Sydenham, but Sydenham's available writings contain no...
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    1673 to 1675, a similar serious epidemic occurred in London, which Thomas Sydenham described as "febris comatosa". In 1695, a 20 year-old woman in Germany...
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    commonly used to refer to scarlet fever, "scarlatina", was written by Thomas Sydenham, an English physician. In 1827, Richard Bright was the first to recognize...
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    Thomas Sydenham theorized that hysteria was an emotional condition, instead of a physical condition. Many physicians followed Lepois and Sydenham's lead...
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  • attribution to Galen is disputed, and has variously been attributed to Thomas Sydenham and Rudolf Virchow. "Dorlands Medical Dictionary:cardinal signs". "Definition:...
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    16th and 17th century by medical professionals such as Ambroise Pare, Thomas Sydenham, and Abraham Zacuto, who published their findings furthering medical...
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    those who employed Hippocrates's rigorous clinical techniques were Thomas Sydenham, William Heberden, Jean-Martin Charcot and William Osler. Henri Huchard...
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    palliative for the heat of the sun in field labor. In the 17th century, Thomas Sydenham valued it as an application in confluent smallpox, and William Cullen's...
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  • the disorder, with Thomas Willis discovering that the brain and central nervous system were the cause of the symptoms. Thomas Sydenham argued that the symptoms...
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    disease of maids occasioned by celibacy." In 1681, English physician Thomas Sydenham classified chlorosis as a hysterical disease affecting not only adolescent...
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  • phrase, has been traced back to an attribution to Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689) in a book by Thomas Inman (1860), Foundation for a New Theory and Practice...
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    her: therefore, she was still a virgin. Among scientific physicians, Thomas Sydenham (17th century) prescribed shunamitism for his patients. The Dutch Herman...
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  • homosexuality". Laws generally distinguished between "idiots" and "lunatics". Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689), the "English Hippocrates", emphasized careful clinical...
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    the root of the term 'carotid'. Thomas Sydenham (1624–89) mentioned the term 'coma' in several cases of fever (Sydenham, 1685). General symptoms of a person...
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  • William Sydenham (1615 – July 1661) was a Cromwellian soldier; and the eldest brother of Thomas Sydenham. He fought for Parliament and defeated the Royalists...
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    Sydenham (/ˈsɪdənəm/) is a district of south-east London, England, which is shared between the London boroughs of Lewisham, Bromley and Southwark. Prior...
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  • phrase, has been traced back to an attribution to Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689) in a book by Thomas Inman (1860), Foundation for a New Theory and Practice...
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    London, Locke resumed his medical studies under the tutelage of Thomas Sydenham. Sydenham had a major effect on Locke's natural philosophical thinking—an...
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  • century, the English physician Thomas Sydenham was the first to propose a syndrome-based classification of diseases. For Sydenham a disease and a syndrome were...
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  • cough, shooting pains, and labored breathing. The 17th century doctor Thomas Sydenham likewise approached diagnoses based upon collections of symptoms. Psychiatric...
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    Srirangapatnam, where Tipu Sultan was killed, Seringapatam (Mysore), by Thomas Sydenham (c. 1799) A flintlock blunderbuss, made for Tipu Sultan in Srirangapatnam...
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    English physician Thomas Sydenham (1624–89). The prospectus of the Society by the time of its foundation in 1843 stated that: The Sydenham Society has been...
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