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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
Educated at Magdalen College (Oxford)
Educated at Leiden University
Lived at or near Jamaica
Lived at or near Port Royal
People linked to person: Thomas Trapham was a member of Royal College of Physicians (1518-)
Thomas Trapham was a son of Thomas Trapham (-c. 29 Dec 1683)