Notes from Doctor Chapmans's lectures on the materia medica, as delivered in the Pennsylvania University, [1814-1815?]

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Notes from Doctor Chapmans's lectures on the materia medica, as delivered in the Pennsylvania University, [1814-1815?]

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[1814-1815?]

Creator

• Van Derveer, Henry

Subject

• Lecture notes
• Materia medica
• Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853
• University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine
• Rogers, Fred B. [Donor] (CPP)

Genre

• Lecture notes

Language

eng

Summary

One volume (221 leaves) of lecture notes on materia medica taken presumably by Henry Van Derveer in the 1814-1815 session of Dr. Chapman's course. [24] leaves at end contain aphorisms, receipts, and other notes, dated from 1856-1863

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Henry Van Derveer or Vanderveer, was born in 1791, in Roycefield, Somerset County, N.J., the son of Lawrence Van Derveer, founder of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Van Derveer graduated from Princeton in 1811, and matriculated at the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1813-1815, but did not graduate. Returning home, Van Derveer set up practice in Roycefield and subsequently in Somerville. He was active in the medical societies of New Jersey, serving on the Board of Censors of the District Medical Society of Somerset County and presiding as President of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1836. Van Derveer married Mary Ann Frelinghuysen, eldest daughter of General John Frelinghuysen. On 13 Feb. 1874, Van Derveer died in Somerset County, N.J.

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