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Authorised form of nameCoxe; Thomas (c1615 - 1685); physician
Datesc1615 - 1685
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSomerset, England, Europe
Date of birthc. 1615
Place of deathBoulogne, France, Europe
Date of death1685
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (admitted in 1632; BA 1635; MA (1638)); Padua; MD (1641); incorporated at Oxford (1646)
Career:
Physician to the Parliamentary Army (1643); Licenciate of College of Physicians (1646); Master of St Katharine's Hospital London (1653-1660); Served on RCP committee on empirics (1656); Harveian orator (1660); Appointed physician to the Charles II (1665); Fled from his creditors to France (1684)
Memberships:
FRCP (1649, President 1682-83)
Membership categoryOriginal Fellow
Date of election20/05/1663
RelationshipsParents: Thomas Coxe of Corston
Children: Thomas Coxe (FRS 4/11/1663); son-in-law Thomas Rolt (FRS 1664)
Grandchildren: Samuel Rolt (MP) and Edward Rolt (MP)
OtherInfoThrough his position as a physician sent by the College of Physicians to the Parliamentary army in 1643, Coxe is said to have been introduced to Thomas Sydenham and advised him to enter the medical profession. Sydenham would later go on to publish one of the standard medical textbooks of his time, 'Observationes Medicae', and be known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Reportedly, his presidency with RCP was terminated due to emerging Whig tendencies and sympathies.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Foster; ODNB
Notes:
The election date is Coxe's election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/39728327
CodeNA5012
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CLP/12i/6Paper, 'An account of the experiment of the transfusion of bloud out of one animal into another first performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' by [Edmond] King and Thomas Coxe[1666]
CLP/12i/8Paper, 'Account of an experiment, made by Mr Thomas Coxe of bleeding a mangy into a sound dogg' by [Thomas Coxe]4 March 1667
CLP/14i/5Paper, 'A relation of a bone voided out of the bladder of Sir Wm [William] Throckmorton' by Thomas Coxe24 April 1667
RBO/3/57'Account Of an Experiment made by Mr Thomas Cox Of bleeding a Mangy into a Sound Dog'1667
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