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10a/179
Acc. 74678
(Hirsch
204)
09/27/1909
Alison, Robert, d.1854.
Phlegmasiae, [1818 or 1819?].
1 v.
Biography
Robert Alison graduated from the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1819 and died in 1854. No other information on Dr. Alison could
be found.
John Redman Coxe was born on 16 September 1773 in Trenton, N.J. and died in
Philadelphia on 22 March 1864. Coxe studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush
during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and attended the University of
Pennsylvania, which granted him a medical degree in 1794. He furthered his
medical studies for two years in London, Paris, and Edinburgh, before returning
again to Philadelphia to set up private practice. During the second outbreak of
yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1798, Dr. Coxe was appointed Physician to the
Poor by the Board of Health. He served several years as a physician at
Pennsylvania Hospital and the Philadelphia Dispensary. Coxe held the positions
of Professor of Chemistry (1809-1818) and Professor of Materia Medica and
Pharmacy (1818-1835) at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a strong advocate
of vaccination and the first to practice this new preventive method in
Philadelphia. Dr. Coxe also added to the knowledge of materia medica by
cultivating a true jalap plant (1829) and developing a “Hive Syrup” that
remained in common use for fifty years. From 1804-1811, Coxe published the first
regularly issued periodical in Philadelphia and the second American medical
journal, The Medical Museum.
Scope and Contents
One volume (173, 37 p.) of shorthand notes on lectures by Dr. John Redman Coxe
on the orders phlegmasiae and exanthemata of Cullen’s nosology. Includes
detailed table of contents before section on phlegmasiae.
Provenance
Purchased by the College of Physicians in 1909.
[1818 or 1819?]
1 v.
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