SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689)
1624 – 1689
9 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1676 CE
#2198
Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiamet curationem.
Sydenham recorded significant observations on dysentery, scarlet fever (p. 387), scarlatina, measles and other conditions. He stressed the clinical study of medicine and kept careful case records. Includes (pp. 272-80…
1682 CE
#9198
Dissertatio epistolaris . . . de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentium nec non de affectione hysterica.
"Sydenham so precisely describes the symptoms of hysteria that even today little can be added to what he said. He maintained that is was the most common chronic disease, and he recognized that in spite of the fact tha…
1683 CE
#4486
Tractatus de podagra et hydrope.
Of the many great works of Sydenham, this is considered his masterpiece. He clearly differentiated gout from rheumatism. For an English translation, see his Works, published by the Sydenham Society, 1850, 2, 123-84.
1685 CE
#5407
Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem. Ed. quarta.
Contains (Book 3, Cap. 2; Book 5, Cap. 4) an important account of smallpox, particularly the epidemics of 1667-69 and 1674-75. Sydenham attributed smallpox to a specific inflammation of the blood; he clearly distingui…
1686 CE
#4514
Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu.
Includes (pp. 25-28) his classic description of chorea minor (“Sydenham’s chorea”). Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 327-53. In the Sydenham Society translation (see No. 64) the passage occurs in…
1844 CE
#63
Thomae Sydenham, M. D., Opera omnia. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.
Sydenham has been called the “Father of English Medicine”. His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc. A better e…
1848 CE–1850 CE
#64
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.
Best English translation of Sydenham’s works.
1990 CE
#11524
A bibliography of Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) by Geoffrey Guy Meynell.
1991 CE
#11712
Thomas Sydenham's observationes medicae (London, 1676) and his Medical observations (Manuscript 572 of the Royal College of Physicians of London), with new transcripts of related Locke MSS in the Bodleian Library. Edited by G. G. Meynell.
Limited to 200 copies.