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Thomas Sydenham

physician

1624  – 1689

Thomas Sydenham was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance. To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."

All Quotes by Thomas Sydenham

“The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.”
— Thomas Sydenham
“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.”
— Thomas Sydenham
“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.”
— Thomas Sydenham