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Thomas Trapham ( - 1692)

Physician and author of the first book in English on medicine in the tropics (A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, 1679). He received his MA at Magdalen Hall in 1661, was studying medicine at Leyden University in 1663, and and obtained his MD at Caen in France in 1664 (Ashcroft, 475). Other biography: https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/thomas-trapham Relevant locations: Birth place in England, Europe
Educated at Magdalen College (Oxford), Oxford University
Educated at Leiden University, Leiden
Lived at or near Jamaica, West Indies
Lived at or near Port Royal
 Relationships: Thomas Trapham was a member of Royal College of Physicians (1518-)
Thomas Trapham was a son of Thomas Trapham (-c. 29 Dec 1683)

 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica.
as Mentions or references - Tercentenary of the First English Book on Tropical Medicine, by Thomas Trapham of Jamaica.
 References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 758. Chamæsyce major hirsuta Indiæ utriusque. Chamæsyce Americana major, floribus glomeratis Cynocrambes folio hirsuta Breyn. Prodr. 2. p. 31. an Chamesyce Luzonis major Cameli Mss. Fig. Tithymalus Americanus, humifusus, serratus, floribus in capitulum alis adhærens congestis Plumier. Instit. Rei Herb. 88. Tithymalus dulcis Parietariæ foliis hirsutis floribus ad caulium nodos conglomeratis Cat. Pl. Jam. 82. Tithymalus Indicus annuus dulcis botryoides geniculatus. P. Bat. pr. Tithymalus botryoides Ceylanicus re- Centuria VIII. repens cauliculis villosis Cat. Hort. Amst 351. Caacica Brafil. Erva de Cobra Lusit. Marcg. 7. Fig. Cajacia Pis. ed. 58. p. 245. Fig. Caazica sive Herba Colubrina Ejusd. 311. Fig. Cajaria aliis Caacica Pis. ed. 48. p. 102. Fig. an? Muriguti H. Mal. v. 10. Tab. 32. p. 63. I have received this Plant from Guinea, Fort St. George and China. See its Vertues in Dr. Trapham's State of Health in the Island of Jamaica. pag. 138.