Thomas Sydenham

• What did Sydenham believe/not believe?

  • Believed symptoms should be closely observed
  • Believed doctors should identify the exact disease before treatment
  • Didn't believe disease was different from person to person
• What diseases did Sydenham discover?

  scarlet fever & measles
• What was Sydenham's book called?

  Observationes Medicae (Medical Observations)
• When was Sydenham's book published?

  1676
• What was Sydenham known as and why?

  English Hippocrates because he knew how important it was to observe