Chapman, Nathaniel
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1780 - 1853
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Leonard Lawrence notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/083
Scope and Contents
Three volumes bound as one containing beginning of Chapman’s lecture course on practice of medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 concerns description and treatment of fevers, including
yellow fever; volume 2, hemorrhages; and volume 3, respiratory diseases, including croup, asthma, and
consumption.
Dates:
1818 - 1820
Nathaniel Chapman letter to Dr. Welford
Collection
Identifier: MSS 403
Scope and Contents
This is a letter written by Nathaniel Chapman, in Philadelphia, Pa., to a Dr. Welford, and is dated 19 July 1839. The letter discusses the case of Mr. Alexander, who suffered from a tumor in his bowel, and offers suggestions for treatment. The collection includes a typed transcription of the letter.
Dates:
1839
Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes on...
Dates:
1817
