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    John Huxham (1692–1768) was an English physician, a provincial doctor notable for his study of fevers. In 1750 Huxham published his Essay on Fevers and...
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    John Saunders Huxham (14 May 1861 – 4 August 1949) was an accountant and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Huxham was born in Ivybridge...
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  • (later renamed Beach Bird) was a merchant brig under the command of John Huxham (or Husham or Durham). In 1750 or 1760 the ship grounded herself at Easton's...
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    scientific description of "Devonshire colic" – it was later referred to by John Huxham and Sir George Baker. However, the precise cause was not discovered until...
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    or 1760 – The SV Sea Bird: This merchant brig, under the command of John Huxham (or Husham or Durham), grounded herself at Easton's Beach, Rhode Island...
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  • contemporaneous accounts of the heat wave noting its effects. Physician John Huxham wrote An Account of the Extraordinary Heat of the Weather in July 1757...
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    51287. ISBN 978-0-7277-5128-7. Retrieved 21 March 2021. Spry, Edward; John Huxham (1755–1756). "An Account of the Case of a Man Who Died of the Effects...
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  • Thomas Mudge invents the lever escapement for timepieces. Copley Medal: John Huxham January 28 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Prussian physician, anatomist...
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    1969. ISBN 9780719003707. Retrieved 2009-01-29. "Oxford DNB article:Huxham, John (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed...
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    named on 21 August 1919 by the Queensland Railways Department after John Saunders Huxham, the Home Secretary of Queensland. Spring Creek (23°35′00″S 150°10′00″E...
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