An Inaugural Essay on Inflammation

Philadelphia: R Aitken, 1794. First Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Good; front endpapers excised; some toning and offsetting.. 8vo, [8], [7] - 55, [1 - blank] pp.

Coxe was a key figure in the scientific and medical community of post colonial America. The lectures he offered in Pharmacy and Materia Medica were the chief source of systematic instruction (DAB) in the United States during this period. He was educated in London and Edinburgh and received his medical degree, with the dissertation offered here, under Benjamin Rush at the Univ. of Penn.. He assisted Rush during the great yellow - fever epidemic of 1793. He returned London and Edinburgh to study at the hospitals and then returned to America in 1797. He was the author and editor of numerous books and periodicals in medicine and pharmacy. Upon his death his medical library was reputed to the be the finest in America. The book offered here treats the difficult problems of wound inflammation. An important work. Austin #556; Evans #26828; DAB IV, 486-487.