IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-SYDET
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624-1689)
Date(s): 1669- c 1683
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 items
Name of creator(s): Sydenham | Thomas | 1624-1689 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Baptized, 1624; educated Oxford University and Montpellier; began his career as an army officer in the army of Charles I; entered medicine and became a famous London practitioner, often called 'the English Hippocrates'; His conceptions of the causes and treatments of epidemics and his classic descriptions of gout, smallpox, malaria, scarlet fever, hysteria, and chorea established him as a founder of modern clinical medicine and epidemiology; died, 1689.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Thomas Sydenham, 1669-c1683, including observations on fevers and acute diseases, in collaboration with John Locke and translation into English of his treatise on gout.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Translation of the treatise on gout purchased 1961.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008