Background
He was born on May 15, 1776 in Maryland, United States, son of Dr. Mark Brown and Rebecca (Boyce) Sappington. He attended for one term (1814 - 15) a course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.
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He was born on May 15, 1776 in Maryland, United States, son of Dr. Mark Brown and Rebecca (Boyce) Sappington. He attended for one term (1814 - 15) a course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a schoolboy his family moved to Nashville, Tenn. Later he studied under the guidance of his father, who taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
After studies he moved to Tennessee to practice medicine independently. In 1817 he went to Missouri, locating in Howard County. After practising there for two years he moved across the Missouri River to Saline County, where he established his permanent residence, "Fox Castle, " near Arrow Rock.
Sappington's life may be said to have been devoted to the cause of quinine. In the early development of the Southern and Western states, malaria was so prevalent that it was one of the greatest obstacles with which the early settlers had to contend. Soon after quinine (isolated from Peruvian Bark in 1820) became available in the United States, Sappington recognized its specific nature in the treatment of malaria, and strongly advocated its use.
Unable to change the erroneous opinions of his fellow practitioners and realizing the urgent need of making quinine available to people in the intensely malarious districts, he began in 1832 the wholesale distribution of Dr. John Sappington's Anti-Fever Pills. Over one million boxes of these were distributed through the Western and Southern states.
In his Theory and Treatment of Fevers (1844) he gave in detail his method of preparing his quinine-containing pills and advocated quinine, properly used, as the only thing necessary to cure malaria. Although living in a frontier community far removed from the seats of medical learning, Sappington's views regarding the treatment of fevers was more in accord with modern medical practice than were those of his more favored contemporaries.
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On Nov. 22, 1804, he married Jane Breathitt, daughter of Gov. John Breathitt of Kentucky. The couple had nine children together, two boys and seven girls.
