John Redman Coxe (1773–1864)

American physician, born in Trenton, NJ, in 1773. He studied medicine in the United States and in Europe, and in 1796 settled in Philadelphia. For several years he was a physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital, and later in the Philadelphia Dispensary. In 1809 he became professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1818 to 1835 was professor of materia medica and pharmacy in the same institution. Dr. Coxe was the first physician to practice vaccination in Philadelphia. He published many works on medicine and kindred subjects, among them being American Dispensatory (1827) and Refutation of Harvey’s Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood (1834). He died in Philadelphia on the 22nd of March 1864.