Medical Observation

…He was not theoretical like the physical and chemical schools of medicine of the time, but empirical based on clinical observation and placed importance on natural healing, and was called the “English Hippocrates.” He wrote about gout, chorea, pneumonia, and other conditions, and his major work, “Observationes medicinae” (1676), is famous. He gave a detailed description of chorea minor, which is usually associated with rheumatic diseases and occurs mainly in children, and this disease is specifically called “Sydenham’s chorea.” …

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…当時の物理的医学派や化学的医学派のように理論に走らず，臨床観察による経験主義で，自然治癒を重要視し，〈イギリスのヒッポクラテス〉とよばれた。痛風，舞踏病，肺炎などの記述があり，主著《医学観察Observationes medicinae》(1676)が名高い。通常リウマチ性疾患に関連して，主として小児におこる小舞踏病chorea minorを詳しく記載したことから，この病気はとくに〈シデナム舞踏病〉とよばれる。…

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