Call no. 10a/181                                                                                                   Acc. 74680
(Hirsch 162)                                                                                                          09/27/1909


Alison, Robert, d. 1854.
   Practice of medicine, 1818.
   1 v.


Biography

Robert Alison graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1819 and died in 1854. No other information on Dr. Alison could be found.

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.

Scope and Contents

One volume (364 leaves, many blank) of notes on lectures on the practice of medicine delivered by Nathaniel Chapman in 1818, probably recorded by Robert Alison. Blank leaves may indicate missed lectures. Notes include lectures on fevers, diseases of the digestive and respiratory systems, gout, rheumatism, and skin diseases.

Provenance

The College purchased this item in 1909.




1818
1 v.

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