Edward Barton notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman

Item

Identifier: 10a 26

Scope and Contents

Two volumes of notes on 52 lectures on materia medica delivered by Nathaniel Chapman between Nov. 8, 1814 and Mar. 1, 1815 at the University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 1 (123 leaves) contains lectures 1 (Nov. 8, 1814) through 25 (Dec. 22, 1814). Vol. 2 (leaves 124-247) contains lectures 26 (Dec. 23, 1814) through 52 (Mar. 1, 1815).

Dates

1814-11 - 1815-03

Creator

Barton, Edward (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Edward Barton, physician, was born in England and came to the United States as a child under the care of Abbé Tissezant. He attended Roman Catholic College in Baltimore. After living a few months in Hanover, N.H., he moved to New Haven, Conn., where he attended lectures by Dr. Smith of the Medical College. In 1814 he came to Philadelphia, where he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania under the preceptorship of Dr. Physick and received his M.D. in 1815. After a few years travelling through Europe, Barton returned to Philadelphia to set up private practice. He contributed articles to Dr. Chapman’s Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences. On 27 Dec. 1821, while on a trip through the Mediterranean, Barton died of a pulmonary affliction in Genoa, Italy.

Nathaniel Chapman was an 1801 graduate of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, furthering his medical studies in Edinburgh before settling in Philadelphia in 1804. Chapman is best known as a medical teacher, editor, and professional advocate. He became editor of the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences in 1820. From 1810 on he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as professor of materia medica and professor of the theory and practice of medicine and clinical medicine. In 1817 Chapman founded the Medical Institute of Philadelphia, considered the first medical post-graduate school in the United States. The principle publications of Chapman’s career are based on his lectures, such as his A Compendium of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine (1846). Among his other accomplishments, Chapman was elected the first president of the American Medical Association in 1847. Chapman was also a Fellow of the College of Physicians, elected in 1807.

Extent

2 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

Each volume bears the autograph of Edward Barton, dated Philadelphia, Apr. 1815; and the bookplate of H. Lenox Hodge, M.D. (1829-1881). The volumes were given to the College, May 14, 1896, by Mr. Hugh Lenox Hodge, whose relationship to Dr. Hodge is unclear.