Word: sydenham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although scarlet fever has been recognized as a distinct disease since 1675 (by Thomas Sydenham), not until January, 1923, was a single case developed experimentally in man or lower animal. Then Dr. George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found...
...born at Bergen, Norway, in 1892; educated there and in London and Berlin ; in Russian hospital service 1917-19, prisoner of war. In 1923-24 he was interne in infectious diseases at Sydenham Hospital. Baltimore, and later went on the staff of Johns Hopkins. In 1925 he went to Rochester University...
British *Hippocrates *Harvey Sydenham Hunter *Pasteur Jenner *Laennec Simpson or Morton *Lister Roentgen
...Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English, taught doctors to study the patient instead of wrangling about what Hippocrates and Galen might have meant in their writings...