Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689

Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. Octavo in blue cloth, gilt titles; 191pp: portrait, illustrations; dust jacket; 23 cm Fine volume, boards smooth and clean, binding firm; pages crisp, light pencil to rear free endpaper and rear paste-down endpaper else no other markings present; Near Fine dust jacketnearly imperceptible shelf-wear to edges. . Hardcover.

Thomas Sydenham (1624 – 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.[1] Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance. To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."