Thomas Sydenham
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- Thomas Sydenham
- Limitations
- People still believed in bad luck and traditional ideas
- Factors For Change
- Challenged traditional ideas as well as the findings of Claudius Galen
- Relied on observations
- Main Ideas - Importance
- Believed in finding out the exact disease so you could cure it correctly
- Taking a persons pulse
- Used correct methods of treatment
- Gave accurate diagnoses
- Gave the first description of Scarlet Fever
- Diagnosis of diseases
- developed the concept of ‘species’ of disease to improve medical diagnosis
- Background
- He was a pioneering doctor
- Known as 'The English Hippocrates'
- Lived 1624 - 1689
- MD
- Studied: Magdelen College, Oxford Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of Oxford
- Studies at Oxford were cut short by the Civil War
- Publication
- Observationes Medicae
- 1676
- Printing Press allowed his book to spread
- Johannes Gutenberg
- circa. 1440
- Printing Press allowed his book to spread
- Johannes Gutenberg
- circa. 1440
- circa. 1440
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Printing Press allowed his book to spread
- circa. 1440
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Observationes Medicae
- Limitations
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