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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114That is how Dr. Daniel Coxe was described in 1670 by Christopher Merrett in a pamphlet on the \u201a\u00c4\u00faFrauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9<\/p>\n
It appears I have gotten my chronology wrong. The last post on Dr. Daniel Coxe concerned his early medical career, which began in 1669, when he was licensed at Cambridge to practice medicine. It had been my impression that Coxe was a medical man first, and a scientist second. But I now realize that his scientific experiments pre-dated his medical profession.<\/p>\n
Frank H. Ellis wrote that Coxe became interested in \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe new science\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 while at Cambridge [1], so perhaps his scientific experiments took place while he was also studying medicine. His experiments must have been noteworthy enough to attract the attention of The Royal Society for Promoting Natural Knowledge, which was founded in 1660 by Christopher Wren, Wm. Petty and others. Charles II gave it a royal charter, because he found \u201a\u00c4\u00fathe new science\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 extremely entertaining [see Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh<\/em>, p. 183-185]. Some of the original members were from Cambridge, and may have been aware of Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s scientific interests. There were also several physicians among the early members.<\/p>\n Daniel Coxe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1665, four years before becoming a physician. It is true that some of the Society\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s members were not scientists but high-ranking nobility. Daniel Coxe\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s father was a Gentleman, but, without documentation to prove it, I am of the opinion that Coxe was admitted on the basis of his scientific interests, which he demonstrated on May 3, 1665 before the Society at Gresham College in London.<\/p>\n