To John Chapman 1 February 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 1 1873
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me your work on Neuralgia; & I have no doubt that I shall find many points in it which will interest me—1
yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
There is a lightly annotated copy of Chapman’s Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system in the Darwin Library–Down (Chapman 1873; see Marginalia 1: 165). CD had tried Chapman’s ice treatment in 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letters to John Chapman, 16 May 1865 and 7 June 1865). Chapman cited CD’s comments on wisdom teeth from Descent 1: 26–7 in Chapman 1873, pp. 184–5.
Summary
Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8751F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Chapman
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8751F,” accessed on 19 September 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-8751F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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