Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1288

JOHN REDMAN COXE (1773-1864) Practical observations on vaccination. Printed by James Humphreys 1802 52 pp., hand-col. front., 2 fold. tables. 23.1 cm.

After studying medicine at Edinburgh and London, Coxe returned to his native Philadelphia, where he studied with Benjamin Rush (see No. 1065 ff.) and eventually obtained his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a personal favorite of Rush with whom he fought a yellow fever epidemic in 1793. Coxe did much to dispel ignorance and prejudice against vaccination in that area and was the first to use it in Philadelphia, inoculating both himself and his son, Edward Jenner Coxe. The present work on vaccination was his first major medical treatise and appeared only four years after Jenner's celebrated work on the subject (see No. 1086). He strongly supports the arguments for vaccination and presents many of his experiences and observations.

See Related Record(s): 1065 1086

Cited references: Austin 557; Cushing C457; Garrison-Morton 5425

Gift of John Martin, M.D.