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Uncommon card · Science
Thomas Sydenham, an Uncommon card
Thomas Sydenham was an English physician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Thomas Sydenham quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thomas Sydenham card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
To him is attributed the ______ dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."
Answer
prescient. To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries." From the Thomas Sydenham article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thomas Sydenham. Thomas Sydenham 69 · Wallace Carothers 66 · Edith M. Flanigen 60 · Étienne Lenoir 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.
- Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance.
- To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Sydenham article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Thomas Sydenham
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thomas Sydenham (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mary Beale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
