SYDENHAM.
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door, of the church of St. James's, in Westminster. But the epitaph that indicated the spot being nearly obliterated, the College of Physicians resolved, in 1809, to erect a mural monument as near as possible to the place of interment, within that church, to the memory of this illustrious man, with the following inscription:—
Prope hunc Locum sepultus est
Thomas Sydenham,
Medicus in omne Ævum nobilis.
Natus erat A.D. 1624,
Vixit Annos 65.
Deletis veteris Sepulchri Vestigiis
Ne Rei Memoria interiret
Hoc Marmor poni jussit Collegium
Regale Medicorum Londinense, A. D. 1810,
Optime Merito!
