RT Journal
A1 RUHRÄH J
T1 THomas sydenham 1624-1689
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1929
FD August 1
VO 38
IS 2
SP 393
OP 396
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930080169016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930080169016
AB Sydenham is one of the best known names in the history of medicine. The biography of Sydenham has been written by Payne, by Latham, by George Wallis and by Fredéric Picard. The essay on "Locke and Sydenham" by John Brown in "Horae Subsecivae" is well worth reading, and there are innumerable items in which he is more briefly mentioned.Sydenham came from a Puritan family, and was born in Dorsetshire at a small village called Wynford Eagle. His family dates back to King John; it furnished divines and jurists, but found its full flowering in Thomas. In 1642, at 18 years of age, he was matriculated as a Fellow Commoner in Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but his student career was cut short by the Civil War. In 1646, he returned to his university life, and it is related that on his way back to Oxford he fell in with Dr. Thomas