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Born 1624 • England
Died December 29, 1689 (aged 65) • London • England
Notable Works “Observationes Medicae”
Subjects Of Study epidemic • medical history

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Sydenham, detail of an oil painting by Mary Beale, 1688; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Baillou, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1580
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
John Caius
John Caius
British physician
Addison, Thomas
Thomas Addison
British physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
William Farr
British physician
Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
William Stokes
Irish physician
Fracastoro, engraving
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Ibn Zuhr
Ibn Zuhr
Spanish Muslim physician
Schönlein, c. 1860
Johann Lukas Schönlein
German physician
Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau
French physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist