Sydenham

Sydenham definition - medical

Syd·en·ham (sĭdˈn-əm), Thomas 1624-1689.

English physician who advocated the Hippocratic ideals of observation and experience in medicine, and recorded detailed firsthand accounts of numerous maladies, including gout, malarial fever, measles, dysentery, hysteria, and Sydenham's chorea.

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