Chapman, Nathaniel
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1780 - 1853
Found in 16 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
R. Eglesfeld Griffith notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 271
Scope and Contents
One volume of an incomplete set of notes taken by Griffith when he was a student in Chapman’s lectures. An added title page for the volume reads "Practice of Physick, vol. 1st, 1818." Contains lectures on the practice of medicine (leaves [1]-6), and the first part of diseases of the circulatory system, "of fevers," (leaves 7-[10]) and intermittent fevers (leaves [11] through 42). The remaining leaves, about two-thirds of the volume, are blank.
Dates:
1818 - 1820
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
Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.
Dates:
1817
Wilmer Worthington notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 33
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture topics include physiology, pathology, and the practice of medicine, including diseases of the circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems, plus lectures on dropsy, gout and diseases of the genital organs. Each volume contains an index.
Dates:
circa 1823-1825
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