Thomas Sydenham
an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.
Born
10 September 1624 Wynford Eagle, Dorset
Died
29 December 1689 (aged 65) Pall Mall, London
Nationality
English
Known for
Clinical medicine
Fields
Medicine
Alma mater
All Souls College, Oxford ( MB, 1648) Pembroke College, Cambridge ( MD, 1676)
adultbasic
Britain
era
1600-1800
Influenced
John Locke