Joshua Dixon (baptised 1743, died 1825) was an English physician and biographer.
Life
Dixon was baptised in
Whitehaven,
Cumberland
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in 1743.
In 1764 he went to
Liverpool, to work for the apothecary Edward Parr.
Dixon took the degree of M.D. at the
University of Edinburgh in 1768. He subsequently practiced as a physician in Whitehaven.
There in 1783 he helped establish the dispensary, and then ran it.
Dixon died on 7 January 1825.
Works
At graduation, Dixon's dissertation was ''De Febre Nervosa''. He wrote tracts and essays, acknowledged and anonymous. His major work is ''The Literary Life of William Brownrigg, M.D., F.R.S.'' (1801), on his reticent friend
William Brownrigg. It was published with an ''Account of the Coal Mines near Whitehaven'', and ''Observations on the means of preventing Epidemic Fevers''.
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Year of birth missing
1825 deaths
18th-century English medical doctors
English biographers
People from Whitehaven