| 词条 | John Huxham |
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BiographyHuxham was born close to Totnes, Devon, the son of a butcher from nearby Harberton.[2] He was orphaned in early life and became the ward of a non-conformist minister.[3] He attended Newton Abbot grammar school using funds from his father's will. Huxham then attended Exeter academy, the university of Leyden and finishing his M.D. at the university of Rheims. (Due to his religion he would not have been able to attend Universities in Oxford or Cambridge.)[2] He returned to Totnes and started a medical practice soon after in Plymouth. His progress to fame was slow but he eventually became the city's most respected medical practitioner. In 1723, James Jurin, one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, asked for volunteers to keep daily records of their observations of the weather including readings of the barometric pressure, temperature, rainfall, and direction and strength of the wind. Their observations were to be submitted annually to the secretaries of the society for collation and analysis. In 1724 Huxham began to keep such records and, from 1728 on until 1748, he noted monthly the prevalence of epidemic diseases. These records he published in two volumes. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739.[1] Huxham was perhaps the first in Britain to classify the disease influenza. He is also associated with diagnosis of scurvy and for a recommended cure of drinking cider. He is also remembered for Tinct. cort. Peruv. Huxham, a tincture of Cinchona bark used for ulcerous sore throat (possibly diphtheria).[4] In 1717 Huxham married Ellen or Eleanor Coram, the daughter of Thomas Coram, the founder of London's Foundling Hospital, at St Andrews church, Plymouth. He died on 10 August 1768. Works
References1. ^1 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Huxham, John|volume=28}} {{Copley Medallists 1751-1800}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Huxham, John}}2. ^1 {{Cite web |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1033955 |title=John Huxham |last=McConaghey |first=R.M.S. |year=1969 |publisher=Wellcome Trust |accessdate=26 November 2009}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=JAMA Network|title=JOHN HUXHAM (1692-1768) DEVONSHIRE PHYSICIAN|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/655269?redirect=true|accessdate=5 April 2018}} 4. ^Rowley, William. (1788). An Essay on the malignant, ulcerated sore throats; containing reflections on its causes and fatal effects in 1787. With a remarkable case ... To which are added, animadversions on the present defects in treating the disorder, etc. London. 1788. [https://books.google.com/books?id=B8fW_6ec12sC&lpg=PA22&ots=bc50qpFVaQ&dq=tinct%20cort%20huxham&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q=tinct%20cort%20huxham&f=false] Accessed 2017-09-07 11 : 1692 births|1768 deaths|People from Totnes|Reims University alumni|English surgeons|Fellows of the Royal Society|Recipients of the Copley Medal|17th-century English people|18th-century English people|Place of death missing|Date of birth unknown |
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