Life" (1881); "Dictionary and Check List of North American Birds" (1882); "Biogen, A Speculation on the Origin and Motive of Life" (1884); "Can Matter Think?" (1886); "Neuro-Myology" (1887). His "Fur-Bearing Animals" (1877) was "distinguished by the accuracy and completeness of its description of species, several of which are already becoming rare." He contributed the definitions of biological and Zoological terms to the Century Dictionary (1889–1892), and edited Lewis and Clark's travels, with extended notes (1893).
Coues died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, December 25, 1899, of pneumonia following an operation for esophageal diverticulum.
Cowling, Richard Oswald (1839–1881)
A native of Georgetown, South Carolina, of English descent, Richard Oswald Cowling was born on April 8, 1839, and entered Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1858 and graduated there three years later, being made adjunct to the professor of mathematics even in his sophomore year.
On coming home from an European trip in 1862, his inclination was for civil engineering, in which line he did some very good work; but he gave that up and began to study law. While convalescing from typhoid fever, he chanced to read Watson's "Practice of Physic," which so impressed him that he decided to take up medicine, therefore in 1864 he entered the University of Louisville with Dr. George Bayless, professor of surgery, as his preceptor. After attending one course of lectures there, he graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1867. In the autumn of 1868 he was made demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Louisville, and a few years later, adjunct to the chair of surgery. He there discharged his duties so well that the next session he was elected to the chair of surgical pathology and operative surgery. In 1879 he was made professor of the science and art of surgery, and this position he held until his death.
He was the founder of the Louisville Medical News, a weekly journal, the first number of which appeared on New Year's day, 1876. This journal was soon in the front rank of the best medical periodicals. Dr. Cowling contributed many articles on surgery to the medical journals, but the only sustained scientific work which he published, was a little volume entitled "Aphorisms in Fractures."
There was nothing small about Dr. Cowling, he was a big man in every sense of the word, in person, mind and heart. He had a most attractive personality, a magnificent physique, and a figure that would attract attention anywhere.
As a lecturer, he was fluent, earnest, forcible. As a writer, brilliant, broad, witty and comprehensive. He was president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville, and chief surgeon of the L. C. & L. Railway.
Dr. Cowling married Mary, daughter of Col. Samuel B. Churchill, who with three daughters survived him when he died suddenly at Louisville on April 2, 1881, from heart complication following acute rheumatism.
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.
Coxe, John Redman (1773–1864)
Scholar, collector, writer and teacher of materia medica, John Redman Coxe was born in Trenton, New Jersey, September 16, 1773.
When a little boy he was educated under the care of his grandfather, Dr. Redman, in Philadelphia. This relative had studied in Europe as a medical student and seems to have liked English methods best, for he sent his grandson to English schools and on to Edinburgh when sixteen to begin classical studies under a chosen teacher. There the surgeon with whom he boarded induced him to attend the hospital lectures.
In his autobiography he says: "After fifteen months in Edinburgh I returned to London in 1789 and attended two courses of anatomy
