Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English and a member of the Faculty Committee, emphasized earlier this week that the report is a general statement and is subject to revision. He noted that the Committee has not met to consider the Student Council resolutions...
Next day one of the Culver staff saw a news story about a "hospital bum" who could bring up blood at will. The story was based on an article in the A.M.A. Journal by Iowa City's Dr. John S. Chapman describing a galloping case of the "Munchausen syndrome"* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital Superintendent Ralph Haas phoned Iowa City to ask Dr. Chapman the man's name. "Leo Lamphere," was the reply. Soon, into Lamphere's room marched two deputy sheriffs with...
...Indiana Cyclone." His case history, as told by Dr. Chapman, is one of the longest and strangest in medical annals. For 40 days in 1954, Lamphere kept the State University of Iowa hospitals in turmoil. He had arrived complaining of anguish from pain in the left chest; he obviously had phlebitis with clots, and he coughed blood. He demanded and got a narcotic to relieve the pain. He had uncanny knowledge of the location of his veins, was suspiciously familiar with hospital routine. He tyrannized doctors and nurses, was described by a resident as "obese, obtuse, obstinate, obstreperous and obscene...
...this time, Dr. Chapman's inquiries were bringing jigsaw pieces of an amazing story. Since 1943, Lamphere had collected on claims from several insurance companies for injuries to his legs or hands allegedly suffered in California, Louisiana, Ontario, New Jersey and Kentucky. He had had lots of expensive hospital care all over California and in a dozen other . states. Repeatedly he had slashed himself, then ripped the bandages off the wound and torn it open again with his fingers. No doctor had been able to figure out how he managed to spit blood at will...
After Lamphere's escape from Iowa City, Dr. Chapman stayed on his trail. But even after publication of the Journal article, Lamphere managed to get in two luxurious weeks at Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before he moved on to Indiana and was recognized. State hospitals had previously refused to keep him because they are for residents, and he claimed to be a resident of New York. But last week Lamphere agreed in court to undergo psychiatric examination, was shipped off to the state hospital at Westville, Ind. Psychiatrists hope to keep Lamphere in the maximum-security...