Sydenham, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Montpellier, and practiced in London. 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...