Joshua Dixon (baptised 1743, died 1825) was an English physician and biographer.

Life

Dixon was baptised in

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies by road south-west of Carlisle and to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It is th ...

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

in 1743. In 1764 he went to

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, to work for the apothecary Edward Parr. Dixon took the degree of M.D. at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

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 William Brownrigg ( – 6 January 1800) was a British doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland. While there, Brownrigg carried out experiments that earned him the Copley Medal in 1766 for his work on carbonic acid gas. He ...

. 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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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Joshua Year of birth missing 1825 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors English biographers People from Whitehaven