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Thomas Sydenham

1624 - 1689

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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'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Sydenham has received more than 292,000 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Sydenham is the 306th most popular physician (down from 258th in 2019), the 1,651st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,368th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Physician.

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  • 55.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Sydenham ranks 306 out of 726. Before him are Horace Wells, Jan Jesenius, Aëtius of Amida, Hakaru Hashimoto, Titus Brandsma, and William Osler. After him are Adolf Kussmaul, Eduard Wirths, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, John Latham, and Hinrich Lichtenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1624, Thomas Sydenham ranks 11. Before him are George Fox, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Maria Miloslavskaya, François de la Chaise, Arnold Geulincx, and Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours. After him are Barent Fabritius, Jan van de Cappelle, and Murad Bakhsh. Among people deceased in 1689, Thomas Sydenham ranks 11. Before him are Sambhaji, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Khushal Khattak, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Aphra Behn, and Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma. After him are Pjetër Bogdani, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Sydenham ranks 1,651 out of 8,785. Before him are George Grenville (1712), Samuel Wallis (1728), Edward Fox (1937), Rebecca West (1892), Sebastian Coe (1956), and Kate Moss (1974). After him are Jeanette (1951), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), E. P. Thompson (1924), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Eileen Atkins (1934), and David Ogilvy (1911).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Sydenham ranks 23. Before him are John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Cicely Saunders (1918), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), and Henry Gray (1827). After him are John Latham (1740), Lorna Wing (1928), William Cullen (1710), Clarke Abel (1780), James Braid (1795), and Robert Darwin (1766).

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