Thomas Sydenham
(1624-1689)
"the Shakespeare of Medicine"

The Shakespeare of Medicine was happy to pay tribute to Providence: "Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium."


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