American Medical Biographies/Cox, Christopher Christian
Cox, Christopher Christian (1816–1882)
Christopher Christian Cox was born in Baltimore August 28, 1816. He received an A. B. from Yale in 1835 and an A. M. later, and his medical degree from Washington University, Baltimore, in 1838, after which he practised in Baltimore. From 1843 to 1848 he practised at Easton, Md., and from 1848 to 1849 he was professor of medical jurisprudence in Philadelphia College of Medicine, becoming professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in 1849. In 1856–57 Cox was president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; surgeon in the United States Army in 1861–62. He was professor of medical jurisprudence, Georgetown University, in 1869; anatomy was added in 1870. Trinity College conferred its LL. D. on him in 1867.
Cox was editor of the National Medical Journal, Washington, 1870–72, and assistant editor of the Baltimore Patriot.
He died at Washington, November 22, 1882.