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Thomas Sydenham, the Glossary

Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician.^[1]

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Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 170812 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet.

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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; MBBS, also abbreviated as BM BS, MB ChB, MB BCh, or MB BChir) is a medical degree granted by medical schools or universities in countries that adhere to the United Kingdom's higher education tradition.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Charing Cross

Charing Cross is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet.

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Cinchona

Cinchona (pronounced or) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing at least 23 species of trees and shrubs.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edema

Edema (AmE), also spelled oedema (BrE), and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (25 February 1682 – 6 December 1771) was an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua.

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Gout

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of pain in a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint, caused by the deposition of needle-like crystals of uric acid known as monosodium urate crystals.

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Gresham Professor of Physic

The Professor of Physic at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public, typically on medicine, health and related sciences.

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Harveian Oration

The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London.

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Henry Paman

Henry Paman (1626–1695) was an English physician. Thomas Sydenham and Henry Paman are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Herman Boerhaave

Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." The British Medical Journal 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25..) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame.

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Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Hippocrates

Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kôios), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

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Hypochondriasis

Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness.

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Hysteria

Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion.

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Inverness

Inverness (Innerness; from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000.

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Jesuit's bark

Jesuit's bark, also known as cinchona bark, Peruvian bark or China bark, is a former remedy for malaria, as the bark contains quinine used to treat the disease.

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John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London.

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John Brown (physician, born 1735)

John Brown (173517 October 1788) was a Scottish physician and the creator of the Brunonian system of medicine.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Thomas Sydenham and John Locke are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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John Mapletoft

John Mapletoft (1631–1721) was an English clergyman and physician. Thomas Sydenham and John Mapletoft are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Joseph Frank Payne

Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) was an English physician, epidemiologist, and a historian of medicine.

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Karl Gottlob Kühn

Karl Gottlob Kühn (12 July 1754, in Spergau – 19 June 1840, in Leipzig) was a German physician and medical historian.

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Laudanum

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Martin Lister

Martin Lister (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an English naturalist and physician. Thomas Sydenham and Martin Lister are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Mary Beale

Mary Beale (16331699) was an English portrait painter.

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Medical History (journal)

Medical History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of medicine.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Natural theology

Natural theology, once also termed physico-theology, is a type of theology that seeks to provide arguments for theological topics (such as the existence of a deity) based on reason and the discoveries of science, the project of arguing for the existence of God on the basis of observed natural facts, and through natural phenomena viewed as divine, or complexities of nature seen as evidence of a divine plan (see predestination) or Will of God, which includes nature itself.

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Nosology

Nosology is the branch of medical science that deals with the classification of diseases.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.

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Opium

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

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Pall Mall, London

Pall Mall is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Pathology

Pathology is the study of disease and injury.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Plasmodium malariae

Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans.

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Primum non nocere

Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means "first, do no harm".

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Quinine

Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis.

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Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540.

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Richard Blackmore

Sir Richard Blackmore (22 January 1654 – 9 October 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian. Thomas Sydenham and Richard Blackmore are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Richard Morton (physician)

Richard Morton (1637–1698) was an English physician who was the first to state that tubercles were always present in the tuberculosis disease of the lungs. Thomas Sydenham and Richard Morton (physician) are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.

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Robert Brady (writer)

Robert Brady (1627–1700) was an English academic and historical writer supporting the royalist position in the reigns of Charles II of England and James II of England. Thomas Sydenham and Robert Brady (writer) are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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Robert Gordon Latham

Robert Gordon Latham FRS (24 March 1812 – 9 March 1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist.

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Sack (wine)

Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

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Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a Group A streptococcus (GAS).

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sexually transmitted infection

A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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St James's Church, Piccadilly

St James's Church, Piccadilly, also known as St James's Church, Westminster, and St James-in-the-Fields, is an Anglican church on Piccadilly in the centre of London, England.

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Sydenham's chorea

Sydenham's chorea, also known as rheumatic chorea, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face, hands and feet.

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The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers the field of pharmacology.

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Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne (19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Thomas Sydenham and Thomas Browne are 17th-century English medical doctors.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sydenham

Also known as Sydenham, Thomas.

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