Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Selected Works of Thomas Sydenham M. D: With a Short Biography and Explanatory Notes
Several biographical notices of Thomas Sydenham and many editions of his works have been published in the two centuries following his death. The introduction to the Latin edition by Dr. Greenhill and that to its English translation by Dr. Latham deal fully with Sydenham's works from a critical literary standpoint; the essay by Dr. John Brown describes his friendships especially that with Locke; and the excellent biography by Dr. Payne details the facts of his life, so far as these are known. These aspects therefore have been but lightly touched in the following sketch, and the present writer has attempted chiefly to make an appreciation of Sydenham's personal characteristics and an estimate of his place in clinical medicine. The extracts have been chosen in some cases because they describe conditions which Sydenham was the first to record, in other cases because they give delineations of disease that have become famous, and in other cases because they have a permanent applicability by reason of their sound common sense. The extracts quoted in this volume form about one-third of Sydenham's complete works. With regard to the translation, that of John Swan, M.D. (1742), forms the basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
