Sydenham’s career

• His education and training as a doctor was interrupted by the English Civil War. (1640s)
• As an influential London physician in 1660s to 1670s.
• He worked at a time when scientific learning was very fashionable, e.g. the royal Society
• Published his textbook observations on medicine in 1676.
• He was nicknamed the English Hippocrates, because his methods of observations were similar to Hippocrates.
• Sydnam took a much more scientific approach to disease than any other physician.