Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham Thomas Sydenham in a 1689 portrait by Mary Beale. Born (1624-09-10)10 September 1624 Wynford Eagle, Dorset Died 29 December 1689(1689-12-29) (aged 65) Pall Mall, London Nationality English Fields medicine Known for clinical medicine Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates’. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's Chorea, also known as St Vitus Dance.