Coxe, John Redman
physician, author, was born in 1773 in Trenton, N. J. He was a noted physician who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in Philadelphia, and was the author of Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination; Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey's Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood; and Appeal to the Public. He died March 22, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa.