Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1360

NATHANIEL CHAPMAN (1780-1853) Lectures on the more important diseases of the thoracic and abdominal viscera. Lea and Blanchard 1844 vi [2] [13]-383 [25] pp. 22.7 cm.

A Virginian by birth, Chapman studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1800, writing a thesis on rabies in which he supported the views of his preceptor Rush (see No. 1065 ff.). He studied abroad for three years and returned to Philadelphia in 1804 where he entered practice and taught for many years at the University of Pennsylvania, as professor of materia medica and later professor of theory and practice of medicine and clinical medicine. Chapman was the first president of the American Medical Association and also the first editor of the Philadelphia Journal of the medical and physical sciences which is still being published today as the American journal of the medical sciences. A noted medical journalist, Chapman wrote a large number of books during his career. He prepared this work from lectures he had delivered at the university in order to better serve his students and also to be of assistance to practitioners who would be familiar with most of the diseases covered in the book. Among the diseases he discusses are pulmonary consumption, laryngitis, asthma, angina pectoris, gastritis, dyspepsia, enteritis, hepatitis, and jaundice.

See Related Record(s): 1065