Thomas Sydenham

• Thomas Sydenham was called English, Hippocrates and the father of English medicine.
• 1624 to 1689
• He was known as the English Hippocrates, because of his methods that he used, e.g. observations, diagnosis, and natural cures.
• Sydnam decided that each disease was different and needed to be identified.
• Following on from this, each disease also required different cures.
• He believed in observation and diagnosis.
• He meant by letting nature take its course, allowing the body to heal itself when possible.
• He encourage taking the pulse as a method of diagnosis.
• He wrote a book called observations, medicae in 1676.
• He discovered syderman’s cholera.
• He also showed the difference between scarlet fever and measles.
• He did not believe God caused disease.
• He compared plants to animals.
• He also Took advantage of new ingredients that were discovered.
• For example, cinchona was used to treat malaria it contains quinine.
• Despite Sydenham work, people still believed in superstitions and theories like miasma.