. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Philadelphia, made from a daguerreotype by McClees andGermon, of Philadelphia.) 1818) was the author of a System of Anatomy,—held ingreat favor in his day as a text-book. Nathaniel Chapman(1780-1853) was Professor of Theory and Practice in theUniversity of Pennsylvania until 1850. John Eberle heldthe similar chair of the Jefferson School from former wrote on Materia Medica and Therapeutics,the latter on the Practice of Medicine, both works beingexceedingly popular. John


. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Philadelphia, made from a daguerreotype by McClees andGermon, of Philadelphia.) 1818) was the author of a System of Anatomy,—held ingreat favor in his day as a text-book. Nathaniel Chapman(1780-1853) was Professor of Theory and Practice in theUniversity of Pennsylvania until 1850. John Eberle heldthe similar chair of the Jefferson School from former wrote on Materia Medica and Therapeutics,the latter on the Practice of Medicine, both works beingexceedingly popular. John W. Francis (1789-1861) NOTABLE AMERICAN PRACTITIONERS. 287 taught obstetrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeonsfrom 1826-1830. Franklin Bache (1792-1864) was oneof the authors of the Dispensatory of the United States ofAmerica, published in conjunction with George B. Wood,who was Professor of Materia Medica in the University ofPennsylvania, and who wrote also extensively on his chosensubject in monographs and large works, llobley Dunglison(1789-1869) taught for a number of years in the University. Fig. 46.— Dunglison, (From an engraving by A. H. Ritchie of a daguerreotype by M. P. Simons.) •of Virginia, but removed later to the Jefferson School inPhiladelphia. He was a man of great industry and ver-satility, and wrote on a variety of subjects, his best-knownwork being his Medical Dictionary. W. E. Horner (1793-1853) taught anatomy and histology in the Universityof Pennsylvania, and will long be remembered for his re-searches in these branches. John W. Draper (1811-1882)made himself eminent as well by his researches in photog- 288 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. raphy and in general science, as by the publication of bistreatise on Human Physiology, which first appeared in known as physiologist was John C. Dalton (1825-1889), whose text-book is to-day studied in many collegesand who first introduced the method of vivisectional class-room demonstration


Size: 1419px × 1760px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmedicine, bookyear189