John Huxham

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John Huxham

John Huxham (* around 1692 in Harberton , † August 10, 1768 in Plymouth ) was an English medic.

Life

Huxham was the son of a butcher from Harberton, a village three miles from Totnes . After a private education in Totnes, he attended the school in Newton Abbot and in 1713 the private academy in Exeter . Because of his Christian beliefs, he was banned from studying at the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-three, he enrolled at the University of Leiden on May 7, 1715 , where he became a student of Herman Boerhaave . Since his financial means were insufficient to obtain a doctorate in Leiden, he went to the University of Reims , where he obtained a medical doctorate in 1717.

Huxham returned to England and initially opened a medical practice in Totnes. He soon started a family and moved to Plymouth. Initially, Huxham was engaged in weather observation, but turned to medical analysis in 1724. As a sober observer of epidemic diseases, he earned an excellent reputation in the medical science world of his time. His contributions to the flu and scurvy should be mentioned here in particular . He became a member of the Royal Society in London on April 5, 1739 , a member of the Royal College of Doctors in Edinburgh and in 1755 received the Copley Medal . After his death he was buried on August 11th in St. Andrews Church in Plymouth.

Huxham was married twice. His first marriage was on May 10, 1717 in St. Budeaux with Ellen Corham (born February 27, 1689 in Plymstock), daughter of William Corham and Ellen Rich (married on March 22, 1680 in Plymstock). His second marriage was on October 10, 1731 with Elisabeth Harris (* ± 1696; † July 27, 1742 in Plymouth), daughter of John Harris.

Fonts (selection)

A complete edition of his works was published under the title Opera physico-medica. Leipzig 1764, 1773 (1st volume ( online ); 2nd volume ( online )), Leipzig 1784 (1st volume online , 2nd volume ( online ), 3rd volume online ) and 1829. From his Individual works should be mentioned here:

  • Observationes de aëre et morbis epidemicis from 1728 ad exitum usque 1748 plymuthi factae. London 1739 ( online ), 1752; Venice 1764 ( online ), Naples 1765, English London 1771
  • Essay on fevers, with their various kinds, as depending on different constitutions of the blood, with dissertations on putrid, penstilential spotted fevers, on the small pox, and on peripneumonies. London 1739, 1750 ( online ), 1757, 1764, 1767, 1769, German: Augsburg 1755, Paris 1776 ( online ), French: Paris 1752 ( online ) and Portuguese
  • Medical an chymical observations upon antimony. London 1755, German: Medicinal and chemical remarks from the spit-glass. Leipzig and Bayreuth, 1759 ( online )
  • An essay on fevers. To which is now added, a Dissertation on the Malignant, Ulcerous sore-Throat. London 1750, 1757 ( online ), 1782 ( online )
  • Collection of medical writings: from fevers, children’s chafing, pneumonia, stitch, bad throat diseases, and from mirror glasses, as well as some medical cases, the same from polyps and from colic. Georg Ludwig Förster, Bremen, 1769 2nd edition ( online )
  • Treatise on fevers which result from the nature of the blood. Merz and Mayer, Munich and Augsburg, 1756, ( online )
  • Medical and Chemical Observations Upon Antimony. John Hinton, London, 1756, ( online )
  • Liber de febribus et alia opuscula varia. Venice 1765, 1772 ( online )
  • Observationum de aëre et morbis epidemicis. From Anni nimirum Initio 1738 ad Exitum usque 1748. London 1752 ( online )
  • Observationes de aëre, et morbis epidemicis: from anno 1749 ad exitum usque Anni 1752. London, 1770, 3rd vol. ( Online )
  • The Works of John Huxham. London, 1788, Vol. 2, ( online )
Essays in the Philos. Transact.
  • A large omentum, saliva of an unusual color. 1724, VII
  • Account of the anomalous epedemic small-pox which began at Plymouth, August 1724 and continued to June 1725. 1725
  • Case of stone in the urethra, case of spina bifida. 1730
  • Of remarkable diseases of the colon. 1732
  • Of an extraordinary hernia inguinalis. 1740, VIII

literature

  • August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 3, p. 330
  • RMS McConaghey: John Huxham. In: Medical History. Edinburg, 1969 pp. 280–287, PMC 1033955 (free full text)
  • William J. Vogeler: John Huxham of Devonshire (1692-1768). In: Bulletin of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 1906, vol. 17, p. 308 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WN du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV - MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1925, col. 828
  2. ^ Thomas Thomson: History of the Royal Society. From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Robert Baldwin, London, 1812, p. XLI ( online )
  3. ^ Annual Reports and Transactions. 1887, Volume 9, p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Huxham, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Harberton
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1768
Place of death Plymouth