John Redman Coxe
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John Redman Coxe (* 1773 in Trenton , Province of New Jersey , † March 22, 1864 in Philadelphia ) was an American chemist and medicin.
His father Daniel Coxe was a lawyer and in the American War of Independence on the side of the English, which went to England after the war. John Coxe therefore grew up with his maternal uncle, the doctor John Redman in Philadelphia. He received a classical education (especially in Latin and Greek) in London and Edinburgh, where he also met his parents again. In 1789/90 he attended lectures in anatomy and chemistry at the London Hospital and after returning to Philadelphia studied with Benjamin Rush , was involved in the fight against yellow fever in 1793 and earned his MD in 1794 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He then traveled back to Europe to study medicine in London, Edinburgh and Paris. In 1796 he opened a practice in Philadelphia. In 1797 he became a physician at Bush Hill Hospital, in 1798 a port physician in Philadelphia and from 1802 to 1807 he was a physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital and the Philadelphia Dispensary. In 1806 he became a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1809 he became professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He was not very successful, which is why he taught pharmacy (Materia Medica) from 1818. Since the pharmacists in Philadelphia did not want to be controlled by the medical faculty and founded their own training facility in 1821 (later the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy), the university gave up teaching and Coxe lost his professorship in 1835.
He had a pharmacy and sold a popular syrup (Coxe's Hive Syrup) that had been used as an emetic, expectorant, and diaphoretic for fifty years. He was one of the first doctors to vaccinate against smallpox in Philadelphia.
In 1792 he was one of the founders of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia, was its president and gave lectures there, which he gave up when he took up his professorship in 1809.
From 1805 to 1811 he edited the Philadelphia Medical Museum and from 1812 to 1814 Emporium of Arts and Sciences. In 1799 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society .
In 1798 he married Sara Coxe, with whom he had ten children.
Fonts
- Practical Observation on Vaccination, or Inoculation for the Cow-pock , 1802.
- American Dispensatory , 1806.
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| SURNAME | Coxe, John Redman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trenton, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1864 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |