Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham (also Syndenham ) ( born September 10, 1624 Wynford Eagle in Dorchester, Dorset, † December 29, 1689 in London) was an English physician. It is also referred to as " English Hippocrates ".

Life and work

Sydenham put among other things a number of classical descriptions of infectious diseases before - including chorea for the first time in 1686 he described and named after him - and was also involved in neurological and psychiatric diseases such as epilepsy and hysteria.

1660 and 1664 a measles epidemic was raging in London. Sydenham excluded from the measles outbreak as fever and infectious disease, as it is essentially the delineation of fever diseases ( scarlet fever or scarlatina febris, gangrene ) contributed.

In 1666 he published his major work Methodius curandi Febres. From the 3rd edition of 1676 was published under the title Observationes medicae. In his work of 1683 he distinguished for the first time between rheumatism and gout.

Works

  • Thomas Sydenham, Dr. R. Rohatzsch (ed.): Thomas Sydenham 's collected medicinische writings in the German language translated by J. Kraft issued with a biography of Dr. R. Rohatzsch. First volume, Ebnersche bookstore, Ulm 1838 ( translated by J. Kraft ) (full text in the Google Book Search ).
  • Thomas Sydenham, Dr. R. Rohatzsch (ed.): Thomas Sydenham 's collected medicinische writings in the German language translated by J. Kraft issued with a biography of Dr. R. Rohatzsch. Second volume, Ebnersche bookstore, Ulm 1839 ( translated by J. Kraft ) ( keywords and key phrases smallpox, laudanum, electuaries, bloodletting, gout, fever, nutmeg, Kops, dropsy, Absühren, Zusälle, violently, kidney stone, sweat, ounce, solgenden, Ansall, decoction, emetic, Kräste, full text in the Google Book Search ).
  • Thomae Sydenham ... opera medica: imo indice alphabetico locupletissimo in locum elenchi rerum suffecto, utilissime ornata. Ed. novissima aliis omnibus quae praecesserunt multo emaculatior et novis additamentis ditior. Genevae: de Tournes, 1757 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
  • Integrity processus in morbis fere omnibus curandis. Attached works: Quibus AccessIT graphica symptomatum delineatio. Amstelodami. Wetsenius, 1694 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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