John Chapman
1822–94
Physician, author, and publisher. Studied medicine in Paris, 1842. Publisher and bookseller at 142 Strand, London, until 1860. Editor and proprietor of the Westminster Review, 1851–94. MD, St Andrews, 1857; practised as a physician. Advocated the application of an ice-bag to the spine as a remedy particularly for diarrhoea and cholera.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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