Birth: 1780 ca.
Death: 1813, Oct. 25
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

Baltimore City

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1812	James Cocke	M.D.	Lombard, near Hanover St.	Baltimore City

Additional Information

Dates:
Notes: COCKE, Dr. James, professor of anatomy at the University of Md., died Mon., 25th inst. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 19 Nov. 1814)
Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 64
Dates:
Notes: COCKE, Dr. James, of Balto., and Miss Eliza B. Smith, of Kent Co., Md. were married Sun., 14th inst. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 19 Oct. 1810).
Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 64
Dates: 1783?-1813
Notes:
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 83
Dates: 1804
Notes: “Dr. James Cocke in his thesis on Inflammation of Wounded Cavities, defends the propriety and practicability of Ovariotomy, an opinion verified by Mcdowell, twenty-fives years afterwards.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24
Dates: 1805
Notes: Dr. James Cocke begins practice in Baltimore.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 675
Dates: 1805
Notes: “Dr. James Cocke enters practice in Baltimore.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24
Dates: 1805, Jun.
Notes: “Drs. Smyth and Mackenzie, of Baltimore Hospital, reduce a dislocation of shoulder of six month’s standing, and Dr. James Cocke, one of four months standing.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24
Dates: 1806
Notes: “Dr. J.B. Davidge still lectures on Midwifery at his residence (East street), and Dr. James Cocke, his partner in practice, lectures at the same place on Materia Medica and Physiology to a class of four.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24
Dates: 1807
Notes: “Dr. John Shaw, of Annapolis, settles to practice in Baltimore, and is elected physician to Baltimore General Dispensary. Dr. Jno. Shaw joins Davidge and Cocke, and lectures on Chemistry to a class of seven(?)”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24-25
Dates: 1807, Dec. 18
Notes: “The College of Medicine, of Maryland, incorporated. Drs. Davidge, Shaw, Cocke, Brown (Geo.), Wm. Donaldson and Thos. E. Bond, in charter as professors of the new college, but the last three in decline, and Dr. Nat. Potter is elected to chair of Practice, vice Dr. Brown. Dr. Davidge erects an Anatomical Hall, southeast corner Liberty and Saratoga streets, as a lecture and dissecting room, but it is torn down and his anatomical preparations destroyed by a mob (Griffiths’ Annals; Potter’s History of the College).”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 25
Dates: 1807/12/28
Notes: Board of Regents of Medical College meets and organizes with Dr. George Brown as President, Solomon Birckhead as Treasurer, and James Cocke as Secretary. Dr. Davidge elected as Dean of the Faculty. Seven students this session (December 28).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 676
Dates: 1807-13
Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 210
Dates: 1812/10/17
Notes: Letter of James Cocke, John B. Davidge, and William Gibson relating to the College of Medicine, “to prepare a statement with regard to the condition and prospects of this institution, to the progress of the building for the accommodation of the class, to the courses of lectures to be delivered here next winter, &c.”
Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1812/10/17
Dates: 1813
Notes: “Dr. James Cocke ob. aet. 33(?).”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 27
Dates: 1813/10/02
Notes: Report of the committee of faculty of physick of the University of Maryland appointed to “examine into and report the present state of the Institution.”
Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1813/10/02
Dates: 1813/10/25
Notes: Deaths: Drs. C.A. Warfield, in Anne Arundel County, January 29, aet. 61; John Crawford, at Baltimore, May 9, aet. 67; S.T. Johnson, at Easton, July 16; P.E. Noel, at Centerville, October 14, set. 45; James Cocke, at Baltimore, October 25.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 680
Dates: ca. 1780-1813
Notes: Born in Virginia about 1780. Pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, Guy’s Hospital, London, 1801-02; M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1804; came to Baltimore, 1804; associated in practice with Dr. Davidge, 1807; Lecturer on Physiology, 1807; Founder of College of Medicine of Maryland, 1807; Professor of Anatomy, 1807-13. In 1805 Dr. Cocke reduced a dislocation of the humerus of seventeen weeks and three days standing. Died October 25, 1813.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 356

Bibliography

Cocke, James, Observations on jaundice; published as an inaugural essay � Philadelphia: Thomas T. Stiles. 16 p. 20 cm.
Thesis — University of Pennsylvania
Cocke, James, An attempt to ascertain the cause of extensive inflammation, which attacks wounded cavities and their contents � Philadelphia: From the press of the late R. Aitken, by Jane Aitken. 36 p. 20 cm.
Thesis — University of Pennsylvania