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Joseph Fox (1758 – 25 February 1832) 1st Internist London Hospital. Born a Quaker, he became a Roman Catholic on what was supposed to be his deathbed and lived a year afterwards. ==Life== William Munk's "Roll of the Royal College of Physicians"〔(William Munk, "Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, Vol II, 1701–1800 )〕 tells us that this second Joseph, after practicing in Falmouth for some years as an apothecary, "acquired by marriage and his profession a small independence" and decided to try his fortune in London as a physician. He studied at Edinburgh and in 1783 graduated M.D. at St. Andrews. Settling in London, he was admitted L.R.C.P. in 1788, and in 1789 was elected physician to the London Hospital.〔(London Hospital )〕 In 1792 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh made him a fellow. When he settled among them, London Friends were helpful, and it was through the influence of Thomas Smith (Banker, of Lombard street, London – a relative through the Tregelles family (See also Edwin Octavius Tregelles),〔(A Correct List of all the BANKERS 1794 )〕 and other wealthy men, that he became Physician to the London Hospital. "He set up his carriage on 600 pounds a year." In 1800 he was compelled by his increasing private engagements (???) to resign his office at the London Hospital and, having by that time accumulated a fortune fully adequate to he supply of all his wants, he soon afterwards quit London. He had conceived, and partly compiled, "A New Medical Dictionary Containing a Concise Explanation of all the Terms Used in Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Botany, Natural History, and Chemistry" and the publishers, who had the manuscript, arranged for its revision and completion by Thomas Bradley, physician to the Westminster Hospital and long editor of the Medical and Physical Journal. This workmanlike little book appeared in 1803, and in 1804〔(Royal College of Physicians of London; Comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians, ......... )〕 In retirement, he lived first in his cottage at Mylor, across the water from Falmouth. "But there he was soon found out and drawn into practice, working very hard as a country doctor George Alexander Fox (1876–1965) recalled that this Joseph (his great-uncle) carried in a waistcoat pocket little slips of paper on which were written the symptoms of certain diseases, with which to refresh his memory as he rode to his patients. His last years were spent in Plymouth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Fox the younger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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