Daniel Oliver (physician)

Daniel Oliver (9 September 1787 – 1 June 1842) was an American physician. Oliver was born in

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, 9 September 1787; died in

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, 1 June 1842, was the son of Reverend Thomas Fitch Oliver and the great grandson of

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. He was graduated at

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in 1806, and at the medical department of the

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in 1810. He practiced for many years at

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, lectured on chemistry at

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in 1815–16, and in 1820 removed to

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, having been appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine, and of materia medica and

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. In 1827–28 he lectured on the theory and practice of medicine at Bowdoin. In 1828 he took the chair also of intellectual philosophy at Dartmouth. He resigned his professorships in that college in 1837, and in 1841–42 was a professor in the medical college at Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Oliver was a man of varied erudition, familiar with French and German, as well as the classical languages. He received the degree of LL.D. from

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in 1838. His only important publication was ''First Lines of Physiology'' (Boston, 1835). Dartmouth College faculty Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni Harvard University alumni Physicians from Massachusetts People from Marblehead, Massachusetts {{US-physician-stub