John Redman Coxe (1773–1864), physician, educator, and author, was born in New Jersey, spent the American Revolution in Philadelphia under the care of his grandfather, and later joined his Loyalist parents in Great Britain, where he attended school and began studying medicine. Returning to Philadelphia by 1790, he received further training from Benjamin Rush and obtained a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794. Coxe completed his medical studies in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. He opened a medical practice in Philadelphia by 1796 and was the city’s port physician in 1798. Elected to the American Philosophical Society the following year, Coxe served as one of its secretaries, 1801–07. He was an early proponent of vaccination and produced Practical Observations on Vaccination: or Inoculation for the Cow-Pock (Philadelphia, 1802; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 953; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library [1829] description ends , 5 [no. 193]). Coxe edited the Philadelphia Medical Museum (1804–11), issued the first of multiple editions of his American Dispensatory in Philadelphia in 1806, and published The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary two years later. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the chairs of chemistry, 1809–18, and materia medica and pharmacy, 1818–35. Coxe’s preoccupation with early medical authorities manifested itself in publications concerning Hippocrates, Galen, and William Harvey(ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 34 vols. description ends , 32:509–10; APS description begins American Philosophical Society description ends , Minutes, 19 July 1799, 2 Jan. 1801, 2 Jan. 1807 [MS in PPAmP]; Joseph Carson, A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from its Foundation in 1765 [1869], 108, 142, 157–9, 220; Thomas Cooper to TJ, 23 Jan. 1818; American Journal of Pharmacy 36 [1864]: 275).

The first number of the Emporium of Arts & Sciences included articles on English weights and measures, offensive and hazardous factory emissions, the art of making gunflints, wooden matches for artillery use, the 1785 Turin flour-warehouse explosion, a movable engraving table, American factories, and patents. It also reprinted the prospectus described in note to Joseph Delaplaine to TJ, [ca. 24 Apr. 1812].