SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624-1689)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0113 MS-SYDET |
Held at | : Royal College of Physicians Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections › |
Full 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 & 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
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Translation of the treatise on gout purchased 1961.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
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
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