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03/23/1910
Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876.
Notes from the lectures of Dr. Coxe on materia medica, 1827-1829.
1 v.
Biography
Joseph Carson, Philadelphia, Pa., physician and educator, was born on 19 April
1808. He married (1) Mary Goddard, in 1841 and then (2) Sarah Hollingsworth, in
1848, by whom he had four children. Joseph Carson died on 30 December 1876.
After attending the University of Pennsylvania and receiving an A.B. in 1826 and
M.D. in 1830, Carson became a resident at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was a
physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1849-1854, professor of materia medica at
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1836-1850, and professor of materia medica
and therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-1876. In 1869, he
published A History of the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania. Joseph Carson became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia in 1838 and was also a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society,
the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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 ([40] leaves) of notes on materia medica lectues given by John Redman
Coxe from 1827 to 1829. Topics include emetics, cathartics, and anthelmintics.
Provenance
With autograph of Joseph Carson, Philadelphia.
1827-1829.
1 v.
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