1676

Publication of Thomas Sydenham’s main work, Observationes Medicae, in which he recast his previous book on fevers and extended his study of London epidemics from 1161 to 1675 (Dewhurst, 65). He also received his doctorate in medicine during trip to Cambridge, and the year his reputation began to take off following publication of Charles Goodall’s The College of Physicians Vindicated. There Sydenham was included in a group of eminent licentiates of the London College of Physicians (Anstey). John Locke was Sydenham’s greatest promoter, beginning with an adulatory poem commending the 2nd. Ed. of Sydenham’s, Memodus of 1668, followed by his dedicatory epistle to the Observationes Medicae. Beginning in the 1690s, however, Locke’s praise of Sydenham involved not diagnostics or therapeutics, but Sydenham’s practice of Experimental Philosophy as a physician (Anstey).