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Chapman was born in Summer Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.
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My attention is now to be directed to a set of cutaneous affections, denominated exanthemata. This is a bad title, as some of them are attended by a pustular eruption, and not an efflorescence or rash, as the term imports.. To many of the febrile diseases, an eruption is a constant incident. But such as I have at present in view, are strongly marked by several peculiarities. They originate in a specific contagion, the consequent fever runs a definite course, productive of a similar virulent eruption, and destroys, with few exceptions, the susceptibility of the system to a repetition of attack. VARIOLA, OR SMALL-POX. This is a disease of modern times. No account of it is to be met with in the writings of Greece or Rome, which have descended to us. Endeavours have been made by Willan and others, to trace it to antiquity. But elaborate and recondite as were their researches, they have not produced any satisfactory evidence of its existence, and the fact, as stated, is now sufficiently conceded. Forcibly has it been urged by Sydenham, Mead and Friend, that, since Hippocrates, and, especially, Celsus and Galen, are silent in regard to it, the works of the two latter being a sort of digest of the knowledge of their predecessors, we are entitled to this conclusion, and the more so, from the precision of their histories of diseases, that no such had occurred, or with which they were acquainted. The earliest notice of it is by the Arabian writers. An old manuscript, in the library at Leyden, dated 572, declares that, in this year, small-pox and measles made their appearance in A rabia. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology
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Excerpt from Lectures on the More Important Eruptive Fevers, Hæmorrhages and Dropsies, and on Gout and Rheumatism: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania My attention is now to be directed to a set of cutaneous affections, denominated exanthemata. This is a bad title, as some of them are attended by a pustular eruption, and not an efflorescence or rash, as the term imports. To many of the febrile diseases, an eruption is a constant incident. But such as I have at present in view, are strongly marked by several peculiarities. They originate in a specific contagion, - the consequent fever runs a definite course, productive of a similar virulent eruption, and destroys, with few exceptions, the susceptibility of the system to a repetition of attack. Variola, Or Small-Pox. This is a disease of modern times. No account of it is to be met with in the writings of Greece or Rome, which have descended to us. Endeavours have been made by Willan and others, to trace it to antiquity. But elaborate and recondite as were their researches, they have not produced any satisfactory evidence of its existence, and the fact, as stated, is now sufficiently conceded. Forcibly has it been urged by Sydenham, Mead and Friend, that, since Hippocrates, and, especially, Celsus and Galen, are silent in regard to it, the works of the two latter being a sort of digest of the knowledge of their predecessors, we are entitled to this conclusion, - and the more so, from the precision of their histories of diseases, - that no such had occurred, or with which they were acquainted. The earliest notice of it is by the Arabian writers. An old manuscript, in the library at Leyden, dated 572, declares that, "in this year, small-pox and measles made their appearance in Arabia." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Chapman was born in Summer Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.
He later attended two colleges for a short time, before moving to Philadelphia in 1797, where he began studying under Benjamin Rush and attending lectures at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
He was the founding president of the American Medical Association in 1847. Chapman founded the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1820 and served as its editor for some years, and also served as President of both the Philadelphia Medical Society and the American Philosophical Society. He received his early education in six years at the classical academy of Alexandria.
He earned his Doctor of Medicine in 1800, with a thesis on hydrophobia.
Upon his graduation, Chapman traveled to the United Kingdom in 1801, spending a year in London as a pupil of John Abernethy, and three in Edinburgh, where he attended lectures at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh. While in Edinburgh he became acquainted with a number of well-known people, including Dugald Stewart, the Earl of Buchan, and Henry Brougham.
Chapman returned to the United States in 1804, and established a medical practice in Philadelphia. He gave a private course of lectures on obstetrics in the same year, which proved so popular that, in 1806 at the age of only 26, he was elected adjunct to the Professor of Midwifery at the University of Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter was made chair of Materia Medica.
Upon the death of Benjamin Rush in 1813, he was transferred to the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine (after Benjamin Smith Barton held the post for a brief time Chapman gained the post in 1815), which he would retain for nearly forty years, until his retirement in 1850.
In addition to his lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, he also gave annual lectures at the Philadelphia Alms House and the Medical Institute of Philadelphia. Of his published works, the most popular were Select Speeches, Forensic and Parliamentary (1804), touching on both medical and political matters, and Therapeutics (1817), a work on what was then termed materia medica that went through seven editions.
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