HUXHAM, John (1692 – 1768)
1692 – 1768
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1739 CE
#2093
De morbo colico Damnoniensi.
Huxham left a vivid account of the “Devonshire colic”. He was at fault, however, in ascribing it to the tartar extracted from apples in the process of making cider.
1750 CE
#2201
An essay on fevers.
Huxham’s best work. He was well known in the west of England and wrote important monographs on diphtheria and on Devonshire colic. Huxham seemed to appreciate that a difference existed between typhus and typhoid…
1752 CE–1770 CE
#1675
Observationes de aëre et morbis epidemicis. 3 vols.
Huxham made daily records of the weather and prevailing diseases; his aim was to establish a relationship between atmospheric conditions and disease. The work was first published in 1728; vol. 1 and 2 of the edition g…
1757 CE
#5050
A dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat.
Huxham’s reputation rests mainly on his Essays on fevers, but he also left an excellent account of diphtheria. Although he failed to differentiate the disease from scarlatinal angina, he was the first to observe…
1764 CE
#74
Opera physico-medica.
Huxham, a Devonshire man, was a pupil of Boerhaave. His most important contributions to medicine were in connection with fevers and infectious diseases.