Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham was born on September 10, 1624. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham (; 10 September 1624 – 29 December 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'. 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."