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Draper (JOHN WILLIAM American)

JOHN WILLIAM, American physiologist, chemist, and writer; born near Liverpool, England, May 5, 1811. He came to the United States States in 1833, and took his degree as M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. He became Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York in 1841, and in 1850 Professor of Physiology. Among his works are: "Human Physiology" (1856); "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe" (1862), "History of the American Civil War" (1867-1870); "History of the Conflict between Religion and Science" (1875), which was translated into nearly all the languages of Europe. He died in Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1882.