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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 276,459 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Thomas Sydenham is the 258th most popular physician (down from 250th in 2019), the 1,372nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,337th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Physician.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Sydenham ranks 258 out of 502. Before him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, John Harvey Kellogg, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff. After him are Ernst Gräfenberg, Édouard Séguin, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Guillaume Dupuytren, Saint Fabiola, and Podalirius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1624, Thomas Sydenham ranks 7. Before him are Koxinga, Angelus Silesius, Empress Meishō, Guarino Guarini, George Fox, and Maria Miloslavskaya. After him are George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Arnold Geulincx, François de la Chaise, Barent Fabritius, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, and Jan van de Cappelle. Among people deceased in 1689, Thomas Sydenham ranks 8. Before him are Pope Innocent XI, Marie Louise d’Orléans, Aşub Sultan, Sambhaji, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, and Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg. After him are Aphra Behn, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Pjetër Bogdani, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Khushal Khattak, and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Sydenham ranks 1,372 out of 7,765. Before him are John Toshack (1949), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), Samuel Wallis (1728), Edward Lear (1812), Dennis Nilsen (1945), and Malcolm Lowry (1909). After him are Frank Lampard (1978), Neville Marriner (1924), Thomas Browne (1605), Anthony Daniels (1946), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), and Robert Pattinson (1986).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Sydenham ranks 21. Before him are James Black (1924), James Lind (1716), Edward Bach (1886), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), and Robert Darwin (1766). After him are Lorna Wing (1928), John Hunter (1728), Clarke Abel (1780), Cicely Saunders (1918), Henry Gray (1827), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836).

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