Thomas Sydenham
1624
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1689
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
educated at: Magdalen College, Pembroke College
occupation: physician
Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) 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." Source: Wikipedia (en)
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